#ransomware is an actual cyber – phenomenon . First brought to attention in 1989 (the AIDS Trojan or PC Cyborg), then mentioned somewhere back in 2005 ( Trojan.Gpcoder , then the Archiveus Trojan in 2006 that combined ransomware with RSA encryption), 2014 seems to have been its year of choice – the
Also known as keystroke or typing dynamics , keystroke profiling translates into associating an individual with his/hers way of interacting with an interface via a keyboard or another device of input. This identification method can serve for authentication (it belongs to the inherence factors
IDN homograph attacks belong to the #phishing strategies. Usually the bait emails include a spoofed (homograph) internationalized domain name (IDN). Creating such IDNs is based upon the identical appearance of different logical #characters. Also known as script #spoofing, the hacking technique uses
Cloud computing and cloud storage provide network access to a shared virtual space, in order to use computing resources or to store data. Although seen as a continuation of the 70’s RJE (Remote Job Entry) and of the 80’s VPN (Virtual Private Network), cloud computing in its current sense dates from
#tokenization translates as replacing sensitive data elements with their non-sensitive equivalents. The value of the resulting elements being non-exploitable, this #security procedure is supposed to reduce the risks. In order to retrace the steps back to the original sensitive data, the
The air gap or air wall technique implies isolating one or more computers from unsecured networks. It can be implemented physically or theoretically, in the second case the isolation being realized only at a cryptographic level. Used in order to protect classified information, payment networks and
