Guide about Cybersecurity Threats and Tools to Protect Data

Hackers in the 21st century are utilizing the widely connected networks around the world by hacking and trespassing secure systems through one of the common types of hacking techniques which include malware, spyware, phishing, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). Whether you are new to the cybersecurity world or analyzing an incident occurred in your own organization, this article will help you to understand different types of attacks, ways to identify them and the tools to protect confidential data. Below are some of the most common types of Cyber Attacks:

Denial-of-service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
A DoS attack plants an external load on your system resources so that it is unable to give the desired performance and stops responding to the service requests. On the other hand, the DDoS threat also attacks the system resources and is launched from other host machines that are already infected by malicious software.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross-site scripting is another common method by which a hacker deploys a script on the web server directly. It could start from injecting malicious JavaScript in a comment on a blog. This incident affects the website’s reputation, the risk of confidential information, and decreases the trust score of the website.

Teardrop Attack
A teardrop attack sends malicious network packets over the internet protocol and attacks the system to reconstruct the packets during other processes. The target system gets confused, loading packages from multiple sources.

Smurf Attack
A Smurf attack includes IP spoofing to overwhelm the network with unauthorized traffic, confusing the system, and leading to network congestion.