ANALYSIS OF MALWARES.

In this assessment task you are required to select a topic for your research project from the list of research areas/topics provided below: •Security threats in cloud computing and preventive methods •Malware: past, present and future •Employee privacy and email, WWW, and instant messaging •Wireless Network security and preventive techniques In this assessment, you are required to submit the title and an abstract for your selected research project. The abstract will provide an overview of your selected topic, along with key security challenges in that area and why you have selected this to be your area of research. At the end of the submission, you should have “Reference” section that will have a maximum of two articles (at least one journal article) used to build your discussion for this abstract.

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MALWARES AND THEIR ANALYSIS
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Abstract
The research project deals with Malware and its present, future and past scenarios in the
current worldwide internet world. Malware can be defined as the malicious softwares or
attachments or files that are spread across the internet via various websites and also via email
attachments. The malwares are associated with the data loss, network breach and spywares in the
systems of the individuals and affect the computers and networks across a wide range. The
malwares consists of various kinds of viruses, worms and Trojans which might affect the
individual’s computers and might damage important credentials (Nunes et al., 2014). The
malwares in the past were only associated with limitation of the services of the network or
computer and also with the decrease in their operating speeds. However, the present malwares
are more harmful and they provide a greater risks for the computer infrastructures. The viruses
nowadays can spread by itself and also can multiple themselves without any human intervention.
This causes various problems in the computers and can permanently damage their information.
The malwares in the modern world are mainly spread via the internet and they affect the
customers through email attachments (Chadd, 2018). When the users download the attachments,
the viruses affect the hardware as well as the software parts of the system and sometimes the
viruses are programmed to multiply by itself, which causes more problem. However, the future
malwares are more focused on the spyware and ransom ware and they want ransom by locking
down entire servers or networks until the ransom are given. With the use of more complex
encryption techniques, the malwares are getting more complex and also harder to decrypt. Thus
this research project deals with the present, future and past of the malwares.

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References
Chadd, A. (2018). DDoS attacks: past, present and future. Network Security, 2018(7), 13-15.
Nunes, B. A. A., Mendonca, M., Nguyen, X. N., Obraczka, K., & Turletti, T. (2014). A survey of
software-defined networking: Past, present, and future of programmable networks. IEEE
Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 16(3), 1617-1634.