Malware/Man in the Middle Attack/Phishing

1. Malware

A portmanteau of "malicious" and "software", describing a wide variety of bad software used to infect and/or damage a system. Ransomware, worms, viruses, and trojans are all considered malware. It most often delivered via spam emails.

 

2. Man in the Middle Attack

An attack on the "middleman", in this case, defined as the WI-Fi system that connects users to the Internet. Hackers who commit Man in the Middle Attacks can break the Wi-Fi's encryption and use this as a means of stealing your personal data because they're now in the system.

 

3. Phishing

A scam where a hacker poses as a legitimate business or organization (especially credit card companies, banks, charities, Internet providers, other utilities) in order to fool the victim into giving them sensitive personal information or inducing them to click a link or attachment that ends up delivering malware. Some of these schemes are extremely well done, others are sloppy and amateurish and can be spotted with just a little extra vigilance.

 

 

 

 

 

* Reference

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