Potential threats introduced by IT- M2

Cyber Bullying
Cyber bullying can be a problem for young people and in some cases for adults as well.There are a wide range of different method that can be used for Cyber bullying, including social networking sites like Facebook, emails and chat rooms. Cyber bullies often encourage their friends to join in the bullying.

Spam
Spam is unwanted email. Anyone with an email account will tend to receive unsolicited emails, email users should take particular care with emails that have attachments, as these might contain viruses that could damage your computer.

Phishing
phish is a method used by criminals trying to trick people into providing their online banking password and security details. The scam works by criminals sending email users and email which looks like it come from there banking service, the email tells them to click a link within the email which directs them to a web page that looks like the log on screen to their bank account. However the web page is under the criminals control and allow the criminal to discover the victims log on details and other security details.

Denial of service attacks
In a denial of service attack the communication between computer is sabotaged. this is done by bombarding the network with activity to slow down processing and reducing the users quality of service. There are several reason why this type of attacks might be made, for example, a criminal might attempt to blackmail an online retail company by threatening to attack the site unless given a large sum of money.