The person who wants or invade or harm a computer system by making use of variety of tools and tricks are cyber criminals .
These tricks are related to unauthorized access.The types of activities that a criminal do with the help of computer and internet are as follows:
1) Password Guessing :The computer usually use some type of authentication technique by the use of plain text passwords to protect the
computer from the uninvited guests .But some poeple hackers break the authentication code and access the computer resources.This activity
can be carried out by the following method.
These tricks are related to unauthorized access.The types of activities that a criminal do with the help of computer and internet are as follows:
1) Password Guessing :The computer usually use some type of authentication technique by the use of plain text passwords to protect the
computer from the uninvited guests .But some poeple hackers break the authentication code and access the computer resources.This activity
can be carried out by the following method.
a)Password Guessing
b)Shoulder Surfing(look from shoulder for someone using password)
c)Packet Sniffers (A program that checks all the traffic on a section of a network)
d)Dumpster Diving (look in dumped documents for password)
e)Social Enginnering(false call for a password as if you are the user)
f)Superuser status(provide facility to access all the files and documents protected like in UNIX or Windows NT )
b)Shoulder Surfing(look from shoulder for someone using password)
c)Packet Sniffers (A program that checks all the traffic on a section of a network)
d)Dumpster Diving (look in dumped documents for password)
e)Social Enginnering(false call for a password as if you are the user)
f)Superuser status(provide facility to access all the files and documents protected like in UNIX or Windows NT )
