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This lesson covers security threats.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the security threats portion of A+ certification include:[1]

Identify common security threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Malware
    • Spyware
    • Viruses
    • Worms
    • Trojans
    • Rootkits
    • Ransomware
  • Phishing
  • Spear phishing
  • Spoofing
  • Social engineering
  • Shoulder surfing
  • Zero day attack
  • Zombie/botnet
  • Brute forcing
  • Dictionary attacks
  • Non-compliant systems
  • Violations of security best practices
  • Tailgating
  • Man-in-the-middle

Readings

  1. Wikipedia: Social engineering (security)
  2. Wikipedia: Malware
  3. Wikipedia: Rootkit
  4. Wikipedia: Phishing
  5. Wikipedia: Shoulder surfing (computer security)
  6. Wikipedia: Computer virus
  7. Wikipedia: Worm (software)
  8. Wikipedia: Trojan Horse (computing)

Multimedia

  1. YouTube: Common Security Threats - CompTIA A+ 220-902 - 3.1

Activities

References

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