Cyber World

Cyber world – A space that comprises of online interactions among anyone anywhere. A space roughly filled with all kinds of people – popular, not-so-popular, social butterflies and those wearing masks. A space that can connect people as well as disconnect them from their own lives. A space that can be familiar and distant at the same time.

Any and every concept comes with a dark side, obviously. An cyber world keepa getting dark round every corner. In ways more than one, cyber criminals have gone from plain computer hacking to cyber attacks aiming banks. And with this prevailing disasters comes cognizance and awareness.

Here are some of the common types of attacks every noob and pro should know of:

1. Malware: “Malware uses a vulnerability to breach a network when a user clicks a ‘planted’ dangerous link or email attachment, which is used to install malicious software inside the system”
   This definition plainly gives an insight to what a malware could be- viruses, trojans, worms, ransomware and spyware. Many of which are already familiar with everyone- what with personal encounters, missing a virus is technically impossible.
2. Phishing: “Phishing attacks are extremely common and involve sending mass amounts of fraudulent emails to unsuspecting users, disguised as coming from a reliable source.”
   This term is fairly familiar with the public- from personal experience or from that of others, getting tricked by anonymous people on the other line.
3. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks: “Occurs when an attacker intercepts a two-party transaction, inserting themselves in the middle. From there, cyber attackers can steal and manipulate data by interrupting traffic”
   A fairly new term for the noobs but the process of this type of an attack is still not that distant.
4. Denial-of-Service (DOS) Attack: “DOS attacks work by flooding systems, servers, and/or networks with traffic to overload resources and bandwidth”
   This consequently makes the system unable to process and fulfil actual requests- in turn taking the system offline and then paving way for internal attacks from unknown sources.
5. Password Attack: “Password attackers use a myriad of methods to identify an individual password, including using social engineering, gaining access to a password database, testing the network connection to obtain unencrypted passwords, or simply by guessing”
   Passwords are most personal and secret that authenticates acces to secure data. By accessing a person’s password, the attacker can get into the critical and confidential information the account holds.

The digital revolutiomn forayed into India a long time ago. The nation is now progressively utilizing the transformation for making the society go cashless. Apart from making the transactions cash-free, India is digitalizing a majority of other aspects as well. Be it the deployment of security, management of traffic, or manufacturing of goods, the Indian economy is rejoicing the benefits of digitalization in niche fields and industries as well.