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Cybersecurity Defined. Cybersecurity is a set of standards and practices organizations use to protect their applications, data, programs, networks, and systems from cyberattacks and unauthorized access. Cybersecurity threats are rapidly increasing in sophistication as attackers use new techniques and social engineering to extort money from ...
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1. Malware. Malware — or malicious software — is any program or code that is created with the intent to do harm to a computer, network or server. Malware is the most common type of cyberattack, mostly because this term encompasses many subsets such as ransomware, trojans, spyware, viruses, worms, keyloggers, bots, cryptojacking, and any ...
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The CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) defines cybersecurity as "the art of protecting networks, devices and data from unauthorized access or criminal use and the practice of ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.". Every organization uses some form of information technology (IT)—whether it ...
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5. Ransomware. Ransomware is malicious software that cyberattackers can install on your device, allowing them to block your access until you pay the attackers a ransom. However, paying the ransom doesn't guarantee the removal of the software, so experts often advise individuals not to pay the ransom if possible. 6.
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Cybersecurity threats are acts performed by individuals with harmful intent, whose goal is to steal data, cause damage to or disrupt computing systems. Common categories of cyber threats include malware, social engineering, man in the middle (MitM) attacks, denial of service (DoS), and injection attacks—we describe each of these categories in ...
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Top 20 Most Common Types of Cybersecurity Attacks. 1. DoS and DDoS attacks. A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is designed to overwhelm the resources of a system to the point where it is unable to reply to legitimate service requests. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is similar in that it also seeks to drain the resources of a system.
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Each layer mitigates a different type of threat and fits with the others to form an intricate barrier between hackers and sensitive data. Importantly, users themselves can utilize tools to personally implement one of these layers. Top Cybersecurity Tools. Fortinet FortiGate. McAfee AntiVirus.
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