topic 8 section 2

• -denial of service (DOS) attacks
• -IP spoofing
• -Malicious Programs

designed to clog up a company's website so that legitimate customer's can't access to website.

designed to access to a web server or network. IP spoofing involves altering the perpetrator's company's IP address to make it look like its a different computer authorized to access to the network

virus can be used to corrupt data on companies' computers and cause other problems (i.e. Trojan)

• -theft of credit card numbers
• -theft of passwords
• -loss of privacy

an intranet is like a very small internet. Private network or website used to connect a company's employees (and perhaps its trading partners) who are spread over a wide geographic area. Accessible by only the company and its trading partners

• -interruptions of info being transmitter in the network
• -Unauthorized access to the company's database
• -Override of internal controls by management or IT employees