Network Security

The two computer security incidents that will be discussed in this paper are computer viruses and email spam. Email Spam is a very common occurrence to the everyday user, “nearly 85% of all emails are spam” (Cveticanin, 2022), similarly computer viruses are also prevalent “over 560,00 new pieces of malware are detected every day” (Jovanovic, 2022). Computer systems are vulnerable to computer viruses due to design flaws, and or a failure to properly secure a computer. Computer systems are vulnerable to email spam because if an email is sent to a computer the email will usually contain something that will cause the user to click on a link or enter personal information, by participating in the email spam your computer can become vulnerable to spyware that was connected to that email. Common vulnerability issues are “malware, spam, and phishing”(NIBusinessinfo, 2022). 

            Both an email spam and a computer virus can have some of the similar consequences due to the fact that an email spam can also contain a virus. Computer viruses can damage your computer in a variety of way such as exposing personal data, taking over your computer, logging into personal social media platforms and much more. A recommendation for protecting computer systems from email spam is to check the email address that it was sent from, if it is not coming from a trustworthy source than you can choose to delete the email and can also choose to block any other emails that will be sent from that email address. A way to protect a computer system from viruses is to purchase or download a cyber security software than can alert you to any suspicious activity that may be found on your computer. 

 

 

 

References

https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/internet-and-email-security-issues

Cveticanin, N. (2022, July 20). What's on the other side of your inbox - 20 spam statistics for 2022. Dataprot. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from https://dataprot.net/statistics/spam-statistics/ 

Jovanovic, B. (2022, July 20). A not-so-common cold: Malware statistics in 2022. Dataprot. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from https://dataprot.net/statistics/malware-statistics/