Chapter 38

Cybersecurity Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Attacks

Objectives

Upon completion of this chapter, you will be able to answer the following questions:

  • What are the threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks that occur in the various domains?

  • What are the different deception methods used by attackers to deceive their victims?

  • What are common types of network attacks?

  • What are common types of wireless and mobile device attacks?

  • What are types of application attacks?

Key Terms

This chapter uses the following key terms. You can find the definitions in the Glossary.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

threat domain

Introduction (38.0)

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