A CANVASS on cyber security attacks and countermeasures
Shubhi Gupta, Swati Vashisht, Divya Prakash Singh · 2016
The use of Internet is immensely growing and applications are stretching in our daily lives. Be it for household purpose or use to government organizations, no matter what the person is or what job he does, Internet is important. Security is also needed for applications such as shopping, banking transactions, education, public services etc is important too. With wider usage, internet is also known to have vulnerability issue. This vulnerability issue comprises of various Cyber attacks such as fraudulent banking transactions, known as phishing, HTML injections, SQL Injections etc. prevailing these days. Cyber security is a matter of concern by the quick and continuous growth of nature of security threat. Controlling the access, encrypting the message, detecting the intrusion etc. can counter measure these issues. To protect information, it could be stolen and then its vulnerable information can be extracted, just making sure to modify it before someone actually knows about it.