A MITM attack is a form of cyber-attack where a user is introduced to some kind of meeting between the two parties by a malicious individual, manipulates both parties, and achieves access to the data that the two people were trying to deliver to each other. A man-in-the-middle attack also helps a malicious attacker, without any kind of ...
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Over ten million Windows personal computers were infected by the computer worm ILOVEYOU, also known as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, on or after May 5, 2000. With the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs," it first spread via email. Due to the fact that the latter file extension (VBS, a sort of interpreted ...
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Wanna Cry is a crypto ransomware worm that targets Windows PCs. It's a type of malware that can spread across networks from PC to PC (thus the "worm" portion), and once on a computer, it can encrypt important files (the "crypto" part). The criminals then demand ransom payments in order to recover the files.Like other types of ...
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.DDoS attacks are carried out with networks of Internet-connected machines. These networks consist of computers ...
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