Social Engineering - A strategy that realizes on humans trusting nature , Tailgating - when an unauthorized person trys to sneak in behind someone as the enter a secured area, Vishing - Trying to can someones trust can access the secured data via the phone or voice channel , Spear Phising - a targeted phising attack where you are trying to fool a specific target for there access to data and resources, pharming - a passive means of redirecting users from a legitimate website, water hole attack - Users visit an infected website and their systems become infected simply by visiting that website, Credential Harvesting - a campaign specifically designed to steal account credentials., Dumpster Diving - Digging through a target's trash , Authority - entice the target to act in a particular manner or risk adverse consequences, Whaling - targets are a “high-value” people such as CEOs and CFOs, Hoax - Victims are tricked into doing something harmful that they think is NOT harmful, Malware - Catch-all term for any malicious software, Virus - one type of malware that spreads without authorization, Worm - self-propagating, replicates itself over the network via methods such as file sharing, print sharing, and instant, PUP - Potentially unwanted program, ROOTKITS - The most challenging types of malware because they are specially designed to maintain persistence and root-level access on a system without being detected, LOGIC BOMB - deliberately installed usually by an authorized user, this malicious code sits dormant until a pre-programmed date then it delivers its malicious payload, Crypto-malware - encrypts system files so that these files are no longer usable, Ransomware - Files are encrypted and the affected user must pay a ransom before the attacker (potentially) provides a decryption key, MALWARE INDICATORS - Antivirus Notifications, Resource Consumption, File System notification, and a system not performing as usual  ,

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