The sudden attack of Covid-19 has made the whole world come to a standstill. It is impossible to keep the activities of various offices and other organizations postponed for a long time, though everyone stays at home to protect themselves from the epidemic; so corporate organizations have started their services online through remote working. However, the increase of remote work has enhanced the unseen threat in the digital space. Threat actors are trying to deploy cyber-attack using the personal and public Wi-Fi network of the potential victims. So online safety & cybersecurity is now the most important issue for remote workers. Corporations have raised many concerns about the security of official and personal information, confidential information sharing due to remote working.
The year 2019 saw many types of cyber-attacks starting from Ransomware Attack, Supply Chain Attacks to American Medical Collection Agency Breach. These attacks have proved that hackers are becoming smarter day-by-day, which makes cyber security a serious issue for both individuals and organizations.
In 2020, we predict, several types of similar attacks apart from many new techniques of intrusion. Here, we have mentioned about 5 types of security threats which is expected to show up in the year 2020.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a cyber-attack which begins by exploiting one computer system and gradually gains control over other vulnerable computers to attack a server, website or other networks. The hacker attains these computers under command and target systems with malware which causes them to slow down, crash the structure or even shut down along with dismissing services to authorized users.
You have all come across to the choice where you have to log in with your Facebook or Google account to get access to a new website, apps, online games or other service where some offer the sign in option using the Twitter, LinkedIn or Microsoft accounts. Since every app you download on your phone requires you to create an account, so we try the easy method of sign in using our social accounts.
Virus are primarily believed to be codes that are designed to harm and spread worldwide. They are created by hackers to attack computers and steal your personal data to make money. There are different viruses that affects Windows, Linux, Mac computers, whereas some can go far enough to impact on the data services that keeps the internet running and the companies that are using them.
Every computer or laptop has faced the problem of getting infected with a virus or malware. There are various ways through which you will be able to detect a computer viruses, like slower than usual operating system, strange pop-up messages, some computer programs will unexpectedly start running by itself without your knowledge, and other such eccentric problems.
In this multipolar world, information technology has become the backbone of any business. It allows them to sight changes in the global markets far faster than they normally do. Lack of doing so not only leads to financial and reputational damages, it can bring entire businesses to an eventual demise. […]