Cyber Attacks: From Facebook To Nuclear Weapons -- The Telegraph
From social networking sites to secret nuclear facilities, cyber attacks are set to become part of everyday life in the 21st Century.
World leaders are facing calls to amend the Geneva and Hague conventions to draw up “rules of engagement” for “cyber war”. Here are some of main types of cyber attack:
Denial-of-Service (DoS):
Also known as distributed denial-of-service attack (DdoS), this involves criminals attempting to bring down or cripple individual websites, computers or networks often by flooding them with messages.
Malware:
Malicious software designed to take over individuals’ computers in order to spread a bug onto other people’s devices or social networking profiles. It can also infect a computer and turn it into part of a “botnet” – networks of computers controlled remotely by hackers known as “herders” to spread spam or viruses.
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My Comment: A good summary on what cyber attacks will look like.
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