ITGS 3.05: Security

Use of fingerprints, retina scans, or other body features as an authentication mechanism.

• Bonet

• Biometrics

• Backdoor

• Malware

Flooding a computer system with data so that it cannot respond to genuine users.

• Bonet

• Biometrics

• Denial of Service

• Malware

System of encoding plain text so that it cannot be understood with access to an encryption key.

• Bonet

• Biometrics

• Denial of Service

• Encryption

Technique used by criminals to alter DNS records and drive users to fake sites, to committing phishing.

• Pharming

• Biometrics

• Denial of Service

• Encryption

Phishing attacks committed using text messages (SMS).

• Pharming

• Smishing

• Denial of Service

• Encryption

Unwanted, bulk email.

• Pharming

• Smishing

• Spam

• Encryption

Malware which pretends to be a genuinely useful program to trick the user into using it.

• Trojan Horse

• Smishing

• Spam

• Encryption

Technique used by spammers to detect if an email address is valid or not.

• Trojan Horse

• Smishing

• Web Bug

• Encryption

Computer which has been compromised by malware and is part of a botnet.

• Trojan Horse

• Smishing

• Web Bug

• Zombie

Malicious software which replicates itself and spreads between computer systems and over networks.

• Trojan Horse

• Worm

• Web Bug

• Zombie