Authors : Akram Moustafa, Mohammed M. Al-Shomrani, Abdusamad Al-Marghirani and Ahmad A. Al-Rababah
Abstract: Network and web security are continuously evolving subjects in both industry and research. Both sides and players of security (i.e., attackers and controllers) continuously try their best to find new ways and techniques to access or protect. This talk will include some of the new trends in web and network security in terms of detection and prevention. The importance of security in IT field and the unawareness of most of the users in hacking techniques which make them victims of cyber attacks had been discussed in this study. This study analyses, the important types of cyber crimes like hacking, Denial of Service (DoS) attack, virus dissemination, digital piracy, IRC crime, credit card fraud, spamming, phishing, spoofing, salami attack, net extortion, social engineering attack and propose various techniques of countermeasures. It is required to categorize, the cyber criminals to several groups to better match their respective goals is to examine the destructive phenomena in cyberspace, mainly the use of modern information and communication technologies for hostile and criminal purposes. Therefore, researchers will consider such phenomena as cyber war.
Akram Moustafa, Mohammed M. Al-Shomrani, Abdusamad Al-Marghirani and Ahmad A. Al-Rababah, 2013. Hacking and Cyber Crimes: A Preventive Guide. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 8: 225-229.