Tag: Types of Cybersecurity Attacks

QRishing: What Is It, How Does It Affect And How To Avoid It

Hackers tend to be extremely careful about the new tools they can use to carry out scams and infect modern systems without leaving a...

Cybersecurity For Dummies: Basics Of Cybersecurity And Common Cybersecurity Terms

Here we are presenting Cybersecurity For Dummies — a small glossary of the basics of cybersecurity and common cybersecurity terms to get you familiar...

Spyware Attack: What Is It, How Does It Affect And How To Avoid It

What is spyware? — Spyware is just one of the many malware out there online whose main goal is to collect sensitive user information....

Brute Force Attack: What Is It, How Does It Affect And How To Avoid It

Even after applying all the best security practices, cybercriminals still continue to expand and improve their knowledge to violate them somehow. The brute force...

Backdoor Attack: What Is It, How Does It Affect And How To Avoid It

Hackers use multiple strategies in order to achieve their goals — collect information from victims and ultimately compromise privacy. And every day, millions of...

DDoS Hacker Attacks Tripled in 2020: How You Can Protect Yourself

In basic terms, Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) is a type of hacker attack where the cybercriminal sends a huge amount of traffic or...