Hacking and Cybersecurity

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Hacking and Cybersecurity 2
Hypothesis/ Problem statement
There is an advancement in technology in the world today, and security remains the
primary concern of the systems and their technological advancement since there is a steady rise
in visibility of cybersecurity issues and hacking advancing day by day. In this study, the
researchers looked at various cybersecurity issues and hacking that are a threat to most of the
systems and the solutions to overcome them.
Phishing Scams is one of the cybersecurity issues that involves an attempt to access
personal information of an individual like passwords and credit card details for malicious use.
Hackers send emails that seem to be correctly from known sources. Scammers appear to be
transparent and only users who have wide knowledge about security will be able to identified.
Attacks clone the password with a legitimate text to trick users to access their credentials.
Prevention to these scams involve identification of suspicious emails by verifying their source of
before proceeding to open the documents attached to them, avoiding click to links attached with
the email that you are not sure of and maintain the security through installing of antivirus
software (Buchanan, B. 2016).
Through use of ransomware which is a malicious software that try to encrypts user’s data
and freezes such that it becomes invisible to the user while the attacker demands for payment to
decrypt the information to be available for user. To overcome this always have a backup of the
system in a different location so as to avoid blackmail (Lewis, J.A. 2013).
Malware refers to sending malicious threats, that either comes from Trojan horses or
spyware in different forms. Keeping antivirus software updated and frequent scanning of the
systems helps to reduce the risk of this type of attack.