Potential Security Threats on PC

Potential Security Threats on PC

Introduction

Today, everyone is used to of using the computer and internet at their homes, offices and organizations. There is a lot of advancement in the technology within the last decade. This technology also brought some potential risks and threats to our computers. These risks are sometimes not ignorable. There may be severe attacks on computer through various ways, which include the access of hackers. There must be proper security in order to prevent the threats and viruses to attach the personal computers. These preventive measures assist us to stop the unauthorized person to access any way of our computers. This unauthorized person may be intruders. There should be detection which enables us to know that a person has entered into our system. If he accesses any part of our system then, we should know how successful he is in doing that and what he has done to our system.

Discussion

We use computers for our professional work, school work, office work and other works including email, chatting and other means of communications. We do not want others to check our emails and use our system to access others systems. The question arises that who would want to break into our computer at homes. There are hackers, attackers or crackers normally known as intruders. They do not care who we are, and they want to access our computers in order to attack other personal computers. In this way, they can hide their locations and attack the high profiles computer system such as government or financial systems. Our computer may be at target anytime even if we are playing computer games or doing email to our friends.

Intruders are always trying to search new ways to access into the computers through “holes” into the computer software.

Technology

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