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| A software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user |
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| Software code that gives access to a program or a service that circumvents normal security protections |
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| A logical computer network of zombies under the control of an attacker |
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| A malicious computer code that, like its biological counterpart, reproduces itself in an attack |
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| An attack that creates a fictitious character and then plays out the role of that person on a victim |
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| Captures and stores each stroke that a user types on the computer's keyboard |
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| Computer code that lies dormant until it is triggered by a specific logical event |
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| Software that enters a computer system without the user's knowledge or consent and then performs an unwanted and usually harmful action |
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| A phishing attack that automatically redirects the user to a fake site |
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| Sending an email or displaying a web announcement that falsely claims to be from a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to trick the user into surrendering private information |
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| A set of software tools used by an attacker to hide the actions or presence of other types of malicious software |
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| Watching an unauthorized user enter a security code on a keypad |
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| A means of gathering information for an attack by relying on the weakness of individuals |
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| A phishing attack that targets only specific users |
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| A variation of spam, which targets instant messaging users instead of email users |
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| A general used to describe software that spies on users by gathering information without consent, thus violating their privacy |
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| The act of unauthorized individuals entering a restricted access building following an authorized user |
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| An executable program advertised as performing one activity , but actually does something else, or it may perform both the advertised and malicious activities |
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| A phishing attack that uses a telephone call instead of using email |
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| A phishing attack that targets only wealthy individuals |
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| Horizontally splitting words so that they can still be read by the human eye |
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| A malicious program designed to take advantage of a vulnerability in an application or an operating system in order to enter a computer and then self replicate to other computers |
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rapidly spreading its infection
Cencealment
Profit for its creators |
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Appends itself to the end of the file
Removes first three bytes and puts in a jump instruction and redirects control of virus |
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| Executable code instead at the end of the file |
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Virus in split into several parts
Parts are placed at random throughout the program |
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| Virus performs tow actions |
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Tries to reproduce
Unloads a malicious payload and performs some action |
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| How can a virus replicate? |
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| Only replicate itself on the host computer, it cannot automatically spread to another computer |
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file to attach
human to tranpsort |
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| Written script known as macro |
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| series of instructions that can be grouped together as a single command and are often used to automate a complex set of tasks or a repeated series of tasks |
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| Loaded into RAM each time the computer is turned off and on |
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| Adds a program to the operating system that is a malicious copycat version to a legitimate program |
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| Image spam divided into multiple images much like a biology textbook that has transparent plastic overlays of the different parts of the human body. Each piece of the message is divided and then layered to create a complete and legible message so that one spam email could be made up of a dozen layered GIF images |
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| Uses speckling and different colors so that no two spam emails appear to be the same |
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| digging through trash receptacles to find information that can be useful in an attack. |
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Trojans
Rootkits
Logic Bombs
Backdoors |
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Botnets
Spyware
Adware
keyloggers |
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| Tricks of Social Engineering |
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