Security tips students should be aware of

NETWORK SECURITY TIPS

PHISHING ATTACKS

Phishing is a social engineering technique used by malicious agents to lure people to divulge sensitive information. Jakobsson and Myers (2006) defines phishing as “a social engineering attack wherein a phisher attempts to lure the users to obtain their sensitive information by illegally utilizing a public or trustworthy organization in an automated pattern so that the internet user trusts...

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RANSOMWARE

Ransomware is one of the most expensive cyber attacks that often targets institutions that store very important information. Many industrialised economies are greatly affected (Lau, et al., 2015) since these economies are highly advanced in ICT use in businesses and administrative activities and the fact that cyber attackers are motivated by financial gains (Hoseini, 2022)...

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