Types of Security-Related Risks
This section provides details concerning specific types of security-related risks that occur today, their impact, and how to obtain data concerning their probability of occurrence.
Risk Categories
As expected, the specific categories of security-related risks that occur today are very diverse. Here are the most common ones.
Break-ins
Break-ins are unauthorized access to one or more systems in which the attacker masquerades as a legitimate user, usually (but not always) by entering the correct username and password. When authenticated as a user, the attacker can do virtually anything that the legitimate user can do, including read email messages in the user’s email queue, send messages, access the home directory ...
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