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2. List of cyberattacks - Wikipedia

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   A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.

3. Threat (computer security) - Wikipedia

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   In computer security, a threat is a potential negative action or event enabled by a vulnerability that results in an unwanted impact to a computer system or application.. A threat can be either a negative "intentional" event (i.e. hacking: an individual cracker or a criminal organization) or an "accidental" negative event (e.g. the possibility of a computer malfunctioning, or the possibility ...

4. Cyberattack - Wikipedia

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   The stereotype of a hacker is an individual working for themself. However, many cyber threats are teams of well-resourced experts. [44] "Growing revenues for cyber criminals are leading to more and more attacks, increasing professionalism and highly specialized attackers.

5. 5 emerging cybersecurity threats facing the U.S. - AOL

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   Karim Hijazi is CEO of Prevailion, a cyber intelligence company that monitors and detects active threats by infiltrating hacker networks. Hijazi is also a former director of intelligence for ...

6. Cyberterrorism - Wikipedia

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   This can include use of information technology to organize and execute attacks against networks, computer systems and telecommunications infrastructures, or for exchanging information or making threats electronically. Examples are hacking into computer systems, introducing viruses to vulnerable networks, web site defacing, Denial-of-service ...

7. Trojan horse (computing) - Wikipedia

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   A simple example is the following malicious version of the Linux sudo command. An attacker would place this script in a publicly writable directory (e.g., /tmp). If an administrator happens to be in this directory and executes sudo, then the Trojan may execute, compromising the administrator's password.