III Short answer type questions
1. What is meant by the term 'cyber threat'?
2. What is social engineering?
3. What are adware?
4. What is the difference between a spyware and an adware?
5. What is meant by the Denial of Service attack? 6. What is cyberstalking?
7. What are cookies?
8. What is meant by spam?
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Answer:
1) Any circumstance or event with the potential to harm an information system through unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure, modification of data, and/or denial of service. Threats arise from human actions and natural events.
2)the use of centralized planning in an attempt to manage social change and regulate the future development and behaviour of a society.
3)software that automatically displays or downloads advertising material such as banners or pop-ups when a user is online.
4)How is spyware different from adware? Spyware and Adware are essentially the same thing. The primary difference is that adware is used to pop-up ads that are meant to be meaningful to you, whereas spyware may pop-up ads that are offensive or have nothing to do with your interests.
5) Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users. ... There are two general methods of DoS attacks: flooding services or crashing services.
6)the repeated use of electronic communications to harass or frighten someone, for example by sending threatening emails.
7)a packet of data sent by a web server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
8)rrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.
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