Cyber Security Threats Yassir Nour Dr. Fonda Ingram ETCS-690 Cybersecurity Research Seminar Date: 02/08/2019 1. Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks A denial-of-service (DoS) is any kind of assault where the assailants (programmers) endeavor to keep real clients from getting to the service. Programmer sends undesirable high volumes of traffic through the system until it ends up stacked and can never again work. https://www.incapsula.com/ddos/ddos-attacks/denial-of-service.html 2 Company and summary of how the threat affected the firm Deezer, an online music streaming service, says it was affected by a vast scale DDoS assault on June 7 through a botnet, which brought about the organization's site being down for a few hours. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/10/deezer-user-data-hack-attack-ddos 3 Possible Solution s These threats could been avoided by: Reinforcing the security frameworks and servers WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) are an incredible instrument to use against these assaults as they give you more command over your web traffic while perceiving malicious web misuses. 2. Malware A malware assault is a sort of cyber-attack in which malware or malicious programming performs exercises on the unfortunate casualty's PC system, more often than not without his/her insight. In straightforward words, it is a code with the expectation to takes information or obliterates something on the PC. https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware.html 5 Company and summary of how the threat affected the firm Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) on October 15, 2018, was assaulted by Ryuk ransomware making huge harm to the association's system and brought about various databases and systems being modified starting from the group up. The ransomware corrupted vast quantities of endpoints and requested higher payments than what we ordinarily observe (15 to 50 Bitcoins). https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/malware/2019/01/ryuk-ransomware-attacks-businesses-over-the-holidays/ 6 Possible .

1. Cyber Security Threats
Yassir Nour
Dr. Fonda Ingram
ETCS-690
Cybersecurity Research Seminar
Date: 02/08/2019
1. Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks
A denial-of-service (DoS) is any kind of assault where the
assailants (programmers) endeavor to keep real clients from
getting to the service.
Programmer sends undesirable high volumes of traffic through
the system until it ends up stacked and can never again work.

2. https://www.incapsula.com/ddos/ddos-attacks/denial-of-
service.html
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Company and summary of how the threat affected the firm
Deezer, an online music streaming service, says it was affected
by a vast scale DDoS assault on June 7 through a botnet, which
brought about the organization's site being down for a few
hours.

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/10/deezer-
user-data-hack-attack-ddos
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Possible
Solution
s
These threats could been avoided by:
Reinforcing the security frameworks and servers
WAFs (Web Application Firewalls) are an incredible instrument
to use against these assaults as they give you more command
over your web traffic while perceiving malicious web misuses.

4. 2. Malware
A malware assault is a sort of cyber-attack in which malware or
malicious programming performs exercises on the unfortunate
casualty's PC system, more often than not without his/her
insight.
In straightforward words, it is a code with the expectation to
takes information or obliterates something on the PC.

5. https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware.html
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Company and summary of how the threat affected the firm
Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) on October 15,

6. 2018, was assaulted by Ryuk ransomware making huge harm to
the association's system and brought about various databases
and systems being modified starting from the group up.
The ransomware corrupted vast quantities of endpoints and
requested higher payments than what we ordinarily observe (15
to 50 Bitcoins).

7. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/malware/2019/01/ryu
k-ransomware-attacks-businesses-over-the-holidays/
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