Describe The Causes Of Malicious Damage

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Malicious Damage is a performance that purposely causes harm to own, private or commercial property; it is illegal. E.g. malicious damage is graffiti and vandalism. Malicious damage is a serious offense; there are severe penalties for acts associated with this offense. If done within the organisation then it’s internal and the certain employer has to be sacked for doing inappropriate act or if done from outside then it’s external.
Internal: Are accidents/attacks happening in the organisation. There are many internal threats when you are using computer system as mostly people don’t know how to use it safely or they may misuse it such as for example, an employee may copy information from a database table into an email for troubleshooting resolutions and accidentally include external email addresses in the recipient list. Also, internal threat is harmful to the computers or operating system via using main logging. If you download files from infected emails or sites then the network will be infected; there will be viruses in the computer.
Use of scanners: is when scanners are used to scan addresses to identify users IP address. It’s to identify user address through internet. Using this would allow the hackers to see …show more content…

It will target user’s network connection and computer system. The attacker may able to prevent employer from opening emails, online banking, websites or any other site/files. Most common attack is submerging user network, which will reject processing any demand made to access Internet. In e-commerce system if the attack happens then it would attack for few minutes with loss of provision but the company’s income will decrease. The impact is there will be less availability of information in business and majority will be inaccurate so loss of data and the employee maybe sacked for not having good control of the computer system to recover correct