FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

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These days in the media it is not uncommon to hear that organisations and companies have suffered from cyber-attacks. The popular image is that these attacks are carried out by so-called malicious hackers that are external to an organisation. However several observations show that many of these attacks are carried out by organisation employees/officers or former employees. What is the common name which is given to this latter type of threat?
A
Ethical hacking
B
Trolling
C
Insider Threat
D
Honeypot
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In a detection-based strategy, a company’s security team proactively works to identify and remediate threats that have breached the organization’s defenses. Prevention-based security is the more common approach, and, in the past, it was very effective.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answers. DDoS (or denial of service), malware, drive-by downloads, phishing and password attacks are all some common and famous types of cyber-attacks used by hackers. 1 Crore+ students have signed up on EduRev. Have you?

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