Indagard Insurance Services Guide to Cyber Risk and Insurance
A helpful guide to how the Notifiable Data Breach scheme affects your business, the threats of cyber risk and the role insurance plays to keeping your business open for business.
A helpful guide to how the Notifiable Data Breach scheme affects your business, the threats of cyber risk and the role insurance plays to keeping your business open for business.
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Once clicked, malware can be used <strong>to</strong> gain control of your<br />
system, spy on your activities, moni<strong>to</strong>r keystrokes <strong>and</strong><br />
passwords, create vulnerabilities <strong>to</strong> be accessed further or<br />
crash your computer <strong>and</strong> network.<br />
Phishing<br />
Phishing is a cyber attack where the perpetra<strong>to</strong>r pretends<br />
<strong>to</strong> be someone else <strong>to</strong> trick you in<strong>to</strong> providing passwords<br />
or financial details.<br />
They may pretend <strong>to</strong> be a reputable business or<br />
organization, a regular person who is in a rough situation,<br />
or a group that is in charge of giving you some kind of<br />
prize or award.<br />
DDOS<br />
Short for distributed denial of service, DDOS attacks are<br />
used <strong>to</strong> crash computers, servers, or networks.<br />
They work by overloading the system with incoming data<br />
from multiple sources; often the attacker will use a group<br />
of people or bots <strong>to</strong> send repeated information <strong>to</strong> the<br />
system from numerous different connections.<br />
They might enlist the help of people from a website or else<br />
use various different servers <strong>to</strong> hit your system from many<br />
entry points.<br />
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