The number of cyber-attacks is increasing day by day , and the main reason of it, is that profiteers can earn significant income through this way, and the number of people who do their daily work through internet is increasing as well, so there is lots of important information in the systems of different users that can be very attractive for hackers due to the fact that they can make a lot of money through them.Every day, many reports of various attacks on users’ systems and organizations is being shown, which make the users more worried about their cybersecurity, so all the users are trying to be able to withstand these cases and maintain the security of their system , the first step in order to stand up against any threat is to know them as good as possible, therefore we will briefly explain the different types of security threats in the following in order to make you aware of them to some extent and prevent the side effects of such attacks on systems.It should also be noted that there are cybersecurity experts who can help a lot in this field and prevent hackers from inflicting irreparable damage on various organizations and users in various ways, hackers may have different goals, and as a result, they try various ways of hacking to achieve these goals.

What is hacking?

In simple terms, hacking is any action that can be used in order to access information in various systems without users’ permission and ultimately abuse that information to achieve their goals, there are different types of hackers , each of which have different personalities and also different goals, including red hat, black hat, pink hat, green hat hackers and so on.

What is security?

Security is considered as any action which is taken in order to block the ways of profiteers, so that they cannot access the available information without user’s permission, which is so important.

What are the cyber security threats?

Cyber security threats are considered as any threats that ultimately cause different people with various purposes in order to gain access to existing information and disrupt the function of systems, these threats may be carried out by different people, among which we can mention hackers, terrorist groups, etc., each of whom has different goals.There are many reports of cyber attacks every year, which ultimately lead to the disclosure of highly sensitive information which cause damage to various organizations and individuals, also if hackers can access the organizational system which communicates with different customers, they can eventually access the information of each customer that cause huge damage to the organization due to the fact that it is so hard to rebuild customers trust, after accessing the information of different customers, attackers can use the obtained data to access their user accounts or financial accounts which is so dangerous.

What are the different security threats?

There are several types of security threats which we are going to mention below.

- DoS attacks:

DoS, which stands for denial of service, is a common threat that may affect various systems, and as a result of this attack, the computer will no longer respond, in DDoS attack , which stands for distributed denial of service, the attack occurs from a computer network and eventually causes the user to disconnect from the Internet and various networks. 

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