Malicious Attacks

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Malicious Attacks

• Jiwon Choi
• Maxfield Holz
• Jackson Chu
• Michelle Guarino
• Lilian Kong

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Malicious Attacks are Begins with a piece
of code that has been programmed to invade
computers or a computer programs. Usually their
goal is to access information, damage or destroy
your system or network.Over the past year
Malicious Attacks have increased over 10 percent
compared to 2008.
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Two Main Types Denial-of-Service (DoS)
attacks,This means that the operator becomes
disconnected from a program that is associated to
a network service. It can also sabotage files and
programming, but usually these only waste time
and money. For example if you have ever been on a
website and it collapsed completely, it was most
likely a DoS attack.  Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP), This type of attack
demonstrates taking information through emails
and using them to obtain important information.
An example of this is downloading a file that is
infected, this will then infect your own
computer. This can also lead to destroyed or
damaged programming and files.Malicious Attacks
have increased over 10 percent compared to 2008.