Threats, Attacks and Malware in IT Security - Desklib

Threats, Attacks and
Malware
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INTRODUCTION
 The aim of this presentation is to do provide a
review about recent academic articles on IT security.
To help with the review, the article chosen is titled,
“Cyber Security and the Internet of Things:
Vulnerabilities, Threats, Intruders and Attacks,”
authored by Mohamed Abomhara and Geir M. Køien
[1]
 This is to help in reviewing issues facing IT security
and specifically in Threats, Attacks and Malware.

Intention and Content of The Article
 The intention of the article is to classify the security threats and
attacks facing IT industry and specifically in the field of IoT.
 IoT has been named as the fasted growing technology and has
permeated in almost all sectors of people’s life nowadays [2].
 This calls for a robust security that will adequately secure the big
number of devices and services that are connected to the internet all
over the word.
 However, the number of threats and their complexity keeps on
increasing every day

Vulnerabilities
 They can be defined as weakness within as system that gives room to
an intruder to carry out his/malicious intentions [3]. For example, IoT
vulnerabilities can be found in the software, hardware, policies or the
users of the devices. Exposure
 A mistake or a problem in the configuration of a system that enables
an attacker to conduct information gathering tasks is referred to as
exposure.