Explain various security threats to information ?
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In Information Security threats can be many like Software attacks, theft of intellectual property, identity theft, theft of equipment or information, sabotage, and information extortion.
Threat can be anything that can take advantage of a vulnerability to breach security and negatively alter, erase, harm object or objects of interest.
Software attacks mean attack by Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses etc. Many users believe that malware, virus, worms, bots are all same things. But they are not same, only similarity is that they all are malicious software that behave differently.
Malware is a combination of 2 terms- Malicious and Software. So Malware basically means malicious software that can be an intrusive program code or a anything that is designed to perform malicious operations on system. Malware can be divided in 2 categories:
1. Infection Methods
2. Malware Actions
In Information Security threats can be many like Software attacks, theft of intellectual property, identity theft, theft of equipment or information, sabotage, and information extortion.
Threat can be anything that can take advantage of a vulnerability to breach security and negatively alter, erase, harm object or objects of interest.
Software attacks mean attack by Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses etc. Many users believe that malware, virus, worms, bots are all same things. But they are not same, only similarity is that they all are malicious software that behave differently.
Malware is a combination of 2 terms- Malicious and Software. So Malware basically means malicious software that can be an intrusive program code or a anything that is designed to perform malicious operations on system. Malware can be divided in 2 categories:
1. Infection Methods
2. Malware Actions
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Explanation:
Definitions vary, but in the most general sense, a system security threat is a malicious event or action targeted at interrupting the integrity of corporate or personal computer systems. The motivation is to compromise data for the purposes of exploitation.