Attacks on Systems

What is Attacks on Systems?

Attacks on systems are deliberate attempts to gain access to, read or disrupt a computer system, including brute force attacks that guess credentials by exhaustive trial, data interception that captures data in transit, and distributed denial of service attacks that flood a server until it cannot respond.

This definition is part of the The Internet and its Uses chapter in Cambridge O Level Computer Science.

Concepts related to Attacks on Systems

• brute force attack
• data interception
• ddos
• Encryption