Internet Security Attacks

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“The evolution of the Internet has been widely chronicled. Resulting from a research project that established communications among a handful of geographically distributed systems, the Internet now covers the globe as a vast collection of networks made up of millions of systems. The Internet has become one of the most powerful and widely available communications mediums on earth, and our reliance on it increases daily. Governments, corporations, banks, and schools conduct their day-to-day business over the Internet. With such widespread use, the data that resides on and flows across the network varies from banking and securities transactions to medical records, proprietary data, and personal correspondence. The Internet is easy and cheap to …show more content…

But the greatest threat to this asset is humans. Every security attack has a motive behind that which can be to gain access of the important information or to interrupt the normal business functions. Security attacks can be performed by the rivals as well instead of the professional hackers. Earlier the computer system and their associated networks are designed for the smooth exchange of the data and information. Some of these computer systems and networks are centrally controlled. What some thought impossible became reality and today businesses are being driven by the power of the personal computer that users access with just a user name and password. As with the information revolution, this opened many unseen doors of opportunity and this lead to lot of money. This information revolution also opened many doors for the new age crimes such as cyber attacks. The computing world had changed a lot in last decade and now users are worried about how to protect their important information in computing world. Now a day’s various global networks are available for sharing and distribution of the data or information. Controlling access to these resources can become a problem because you need to balance the requirement for access …show more content…

The security threats are one of the main problems for the computing world. The best solutions to avoid or stop the computer threats are the use of latest computer security framework and user awareness. The main objective of this research work is to analysis the security incidents occurred on internet and the various type of security incidents reported to the various organisation in different countries. On the basis of security incidents identified, this research work also provides recommendation for the organisations and the computer

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