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Understanding common attacks

Understanding common attacks

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Understanding common attacks

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- [Instructor] To compromise information or to attack systems, there's many different kinds of tools and tactics attackers can use. In this episode, I'll discuss common types of attacks and give you a little bit of explanation about how they work. One of the most widespread types of attacks is phishing, including the related attacks of spearphishing and catfishing. This kind of attack tries to trick a user into sharing personal information, usually a username and password for a website. Phishing is very broadly targeted, and nowadays it's usually kept out of most people's view by spam filters. The goal of phishing is to cast a wide net and to try to catch even a few people who are tricked into sharing their information with a fraudulent site or person. Spearphishing targets specific people or groups of people in order not just to collect some passwords from random victims, but to get those targeted people's information, usually in a very focused way. As compared with regular phishing,…

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