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CyberSecurity- A world of Experts and criminals
1.Many of the worlds original hackers were computer hobbyists, programmers and students during 60's.
2.White hat hackers- These are ethical hackers who use their programming skills for good.
3.Script kiddies- This term emerged in the 1990s and refers to teenagers hackers running scripts. -
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Chapter 2- The cyber-security Cube
- Cybersecurity professionals are best described as experts with the protection of cyber space. 2.The first dimension of cybersecurity cube identifies the goals to protect cyber space.
- Confidentially prevents the disclosure of information to unauthorized people, resources and processes.
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Chapter 3- Cybersecurity threats, Vulnerabilities and attacks.
- Malicious software, or malware, is a term used to describe software designed to disrupt computer operations, or gain access to computer systems without knowledge of the user.
- A logic bomb is malicious program that uses trigger to awaken the malicious code.
- Ransomware holds a computer system or the data it contains captive until the target makes a payment
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Chapter 4- The art of protecting Secrets
- Cryptology is the science of making and breaking secret codes.
- Each encryption method uses a specific algorithm called a cipher to encrypt and decrypt it.
- The history of cryptography started in diplomatic circles thousands of years ago.