Cyberworld is fraught with lots of threats and dangers. The poor or hapless users, once get victim of them, find themselves in such a situation from where it becomes really very difficult to come back.Let’s have a look at some of the findings on Internet threats:
Threat glossary
(1) SPYWARE: This pernicious program takes partial control of a PC’s operation or intercept data but for the informed consent of the users, at times with the intention of committing theft of identity or hijacking credit card numbers.
(2) DENIAL OF SERVICE: Comprising the complicated latest intrusions have come a resurrection of older practices, integrating the DoS, or “Denial of Service” attack, where a Web site can be caused to be unreachable by a deluge of data requests.
(3) PHISHING: Setting up bogus e-mails and Web sites to steal personal data.
(4) MICROSOFT’S INTERNET EXPLORER: This is the software, which is potentially beleaguered by browser-based attacks, resulting for 47% of the total.
(5) WEB SITES IN THE U.S.A: Beleaguered in 54% of DoS, or “Denial of Service,” attacks.
(6) PHISHING IS ON THE RISE: In the course of the first half of 2006, such scams are over 81%.
