[pchelpers] Article:Lloyd's Senior IT Manager Marcus Alldrick on cyber crime...

24 June 2008

What are the main types of cyber-attacks and what organisations are most
at risk?
 
Any organisation or individual connected to the Internet is at risk.
Viruses are the best known cyber attack and although the number of
viruses continues to increase their impact is reducing, mainly due to
better anti-virus software. Other types of attack, such as trojans
(software with hidden code) have increased in prominence over the last
few years with the increase of ʽkey loggingʼ, which is the recording of
key strokes on a PC, for example during online banking, and can be used
to steal passwords or credit card numbers. 

Another key category of risk is the bot, which is short for botnet, a
remote-controlled robotic malware (software designed to infiltrate or
damage a computer system) that infiltrates numerous machines typically
for one of two purposes: to send out SPAM emails or generate empty
network packets that when targeted at a particular network address will
flood it to the point that no other network traffic can get in or out. 

More here:
http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/Lloyds_Senior_IT_Manager_Marcus_Alldrick_on_cyber_crime_240608.htm
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