Internet Security Fundamentals

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First published in the United Kingdom in January 2014 by Boolean Logical Ltd. Updated monthly – latest edition March 2020 ASIN: ...

0 CONTENTS STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW THINGS YOU NEED TO DO (^) For ease this eBook is split into two sections: ‘Stuff You Need To K ...

1 Introduction Chapter Page Chapter Page This is an easy to understand guide of the most commonly faced security threats any com ...

To give you an idea of the scale of cyber-crime, it was recently cyber fraud announced that the British police are battling more ...

2 Viruses & Trojans On the internet there are untold numbers of malicious software programs (malware for short) known as vir ...

Below we have a typical payload-based email virus. Here everything that is needed to infect the computer is included in an attac ...

Instead of using a link, virus writers can also include a website HTML file as an attachment or inside a compressed file. Your c ...

It has a compressed zip file attachment named ‘Randal Randall – My resume.zip’ which contains a file ending in JS. This is s Jav ...

But after a closer look you will realise that this is a rather poor attempt, notice the typo in the address who the email is sup ...

Here’s one claiming to be an incoming fax by the eFax service. The view this fax link actually sends you to a zip file at dvddra ...

Some viruses go to great lengths to convince you that they are genuine and are not easy that easy to spot. Here are some of the ...

Example subject lines in malicious emails I have received emails with the following subject lines, all are real, none these have ...

Many email viruses actually appear to have come from a legitimate email address (normally from a government department or major ...

Or this one that is supposedly from the UK Ministry of Justice, complete with a zip file attachment and once again only my name ...

Take a look at these two emails, one of them is real. Can you tell which? ...

The sender’s email, subject line and wording are identical in both emails (they only look different because they were sent to tw ...

One trick to look out for is a password protected zip attachment, which prevents any antivirus software from scanning it. The pa ...

On opening the Word file many people would be tricked into enabling macros to run, allowing the virus to install, in fact all th ...

3 Vulnerabilities & Security Flaws There are millions of lines of programming code behind a modern computer system and it is ...