Cyber Malware Programs And The Internet

Computers have become much more important and popular to our society in recent decades. The computer’s ability to perform so many tasks speedily and reliably makes it useful for a wide variety of purposes. Therefore much important information is stored on computers. Because people and organisations depend on computers every day for a variety of significant tasks, it is imperative that the systems which are used are protected from loss, damage and misuse. This essay identifies some potential risks to computer systems and software and the safeguards that can be taken to minimise these risks. A computer security risk is defined as any event or action that could cause a loss or damage to computer equipment, software, data and information, or

As we know virus protection software is a code written by one of the programing languages that we know. This code works as a search engine looking for infected files in the entire system or specific locations on the system. The idea depends on two important factors which are, search engine and viruses’ data base. The following scenario explains how people get viruses and how virus protection software works.

Any enterprise has to pay special attention to computer security. Computer security is a field that is concerned with the control of risks related to computer use. A primary focus should be on the external threats to the computing environment. In enterprise with branches cross country, it is important to allow information from "trusted" external sources, and disallow intrusion from anonymous or non-trusted sources. In a secure system, the authorized users of that system are still

This paper will firstly introduce you to the 1) History of virus 2) We will learn the types of virus and how they are used 3) The types of algorithm used to program virus and what goes into a program. 4) We will also include how to keep your computer safe from virus. You will begin to understand what virus are and how to keep yourself safe from them. We will also compare the free software to the paid antivirus software which is better.

The Internet is a global public network and it is the Universal source of information. It has become a popular medium for commercial activities. Millions of dollars of transactions occur daily in many financial organizations through Internet. The internet along with digital technologies has taken human life into much higher levels of sophistication and ease. The growth of Internet has brought about great benefits to the modern society; meanwhile, the rapidly increasing connectivity and accessibility to the Internet has posed a security threat. With the tremendous growth of network-based services and sensitive information on networks, network security is getting more and more import than ever. The attacks on the Internet have become both more prolific and easier to implement because of the ubiquity of the Internet and the pervasiveness of easy-to-use operating systems and development environments.

To understand the business of malware, one must understand how malware has evolved in the past twenty-five years. Malware, which includes all kinds of malicious software, was originally created to show the weaknesses of computers. The first type of malware, created in 1986, was a virus called “Brain.A. Brain.A was developed in Pakistan, by two brothers - Basit and Amjad. They wanted to prove that PC is not secure platform, so they created virus that was replicating using floppy disks” (Milošević). Even today malware is still used to check the security of machines.

There are many goals of Information Security, Information Security needs to protect home users personal data as well as corporate and web environments. Information security is needed now more than ever as there has been a substantial rise in cyber attacks; cyber attacks in 1994 were a mere 2,340 and by 2001 had risen to 52,658. (Volonino, Linda, Stephen R. Robinson, and Charles P. Volonino)

Fraud comes in many forms and often involves hacking. There are so many industries that are vulnerable to fraud because it can affect the masses with just one technique. Malware and Phishing are two common fraud techniques used by hackers. It is their mission to obtain sensitive information from their target or targets at any cost.

In the scope computerized threat rootkits are not given the credit they deserve. They tend to be minimized while they proved to be a much serious danger. Dr Mark Ciampa had categorized rootkits under the concealment subgroup of malware, which avoiding detection is their primary characteristic. He had briefly defined rootkits as set software tools used to hide the actions of other types of software by changing the operating system to force it to ignore their malicious files and activities. Rootkits also hide or remove all traces of evidence that may reveal the malware, he said. His definition is not totally accurate even though he pin pointed the main purpose for what rootkits are used for, which is concealment. Contrary to the popular believe rootkits are not malware and not necessarily malicious. Greg Hoglund and James Butler in the Subverting Windows Kernel Rootkits book identified rootkits as a computing technology that can be used for evil or goods purposes. For the sake of this paper, the attention given to rootkits will be focusing on understanding what a rootkit is and how it works, the different type of rootkits and their implementations, detection measure to not get infected and preventive measure to avoid infection.

A piece of software whose indent is malicious is called malicious software or Malware. They spy on users behaviours and data and compromise their privacy and security. Even software provided by reputed vendors performs undesired actions which compromises privacy and security.[10]. They vary in their speed, stealth and purpose, while these properties are evolving[11] rather in a very fast phase. Adversaries are much faster, that the window between the discovery of a vulnerability and malware exploiting that vulnerability is becoming much smaller for the defender. Malware authors and distributes have been evolved to have much more clear targets and motives, such as collecting private and valuable informations and backing advanced persistent threats.

The most compelling category of cyber-attacks is the malware, which negatively impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a network or system from attacks ranging from the network level up to the operating system level. Therefore, the organizations need to safeguard their network and system components at all possible levels, to avoid a possible malware intrusion (Stallings & Brown, 2012). Various critical categories of malware and their attacking patterns and approaches are comprehensively analyzed in this critical thinking paper. Additionally, one of the critical malware types is highlighted with examples of the various attacks that challenged supposedly well-secured organizations.

Most people download a protective software on their computer to fight against viruses and hackers. There are Youtube videos and step by step videos and diagrams on how to set a virus on a computer. Just clicking on a sketchy web address can ruin a computer. Just like human viruses, there are symptoms for computers with viruses. Slow service, the “screen of death” which is a blue screen that does nothing, programs closing on their own, pop ups, lack of storage and spam. Malware is the software used to commit the crime. Richard Boman explains, “The Morris Worm was one of the earliest viruses and its purpose was to destroy software but other than that did nothing”. Most early viruses were created just to see how much damage could be achieved. Lauren Clark reports, “ Writing a computer virus is an intentional action. It can be an outlet for a rebellious teen nowadays” (Clark).

Malware, also known as malicious software, has a deep history behind it. By definition, malware is a code or a software that is designed to damage, disrupt, steal, or inflict malice in some form or another on computer data, personal files, hosts, or networks. It poses a major threat to home and business computers worldwide and there aren’t many means to stop it.

The term “computer virus” is often used as a blanket term for all types of malware. The opposite is true. A computer virus is, simply, yet another type of malware, although one of the most common. This paper will discuss several of the different types of malware, from viruses, to worms, to Trojan horses, what exactly they are, the ways they are used to attack us, and ways to combat them. Perhaps the most important in the fight against malware is the prevention of them. We will discuss ways to prevent being infected by malware, by using programs

Safety of information is the most valuable asset in any organization particular those who provide financial service to others. Threats can come from a variety of sources such as human threats, natural disasters and technical threats. By identifying the potential threats to the network, security measure can be taken to combat these threats, eliminate them or reduce the likelihood and impact if they should occur.