COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS COMPUTER SECURITY
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Question
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Spam
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Popups
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Denial of Service (DoS)
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SYN Flood
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phishing is a form of fraud in which an attacker masquerades as a reputable entity or person in email or other forms of communication. Attackers will commonly use phishing emails to distribute malicious links or attachments that can perform a variety of functions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Email spam, also known as junk email, refers to unsolicited email messages, usually sent in bulk to a large list of recipients.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spam is any kind of unwanted, unsolicited digital communication that gets sent out in bulk. Often spam is sent via email, but it can also be distributed via text messages, phone calls, or social media.
Detailed explanation-4: -1993 First use of the term spam was for a post from USENET by Richard Depew to news. admin. policy, which was the result of a bug in a software program that caused 200 messages to go out to the news group. The term “spam” itself was thought to have come from the spam skit by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.