Types of cyber security threats
With so many types of attacks that hackers can carry out, business owners should at least take note of certain key tangents. Regardless of their primary purpose, any of these methods can cause damage to your business in ways that could take longer to disclose, if necessary. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) These long-term targeted attacks are mainly intended to steal, spy or disrupt. Network intrusion can be carried out secretly and in different stages. Once access is gained, attackers can't even do anything for long periods of time - waiting for strategic moments to hit. Notable APT attacks in the past: GhostNet , Titan Rain Distributed service denial (DDoS) DDoS attacks are intended to disrupt the operations of a network or website by flooding it with requests and information. When the server can no longer cope with the flood, the services will start to fail and eventually shut down. Notable DDoS attacks: Github , Spamhaus , American banks Phishing Phishing is a ver...