Author : Meenu and Shikha

Personal data has never been more vulnerable to prying eyes than it is today. As Internet users are increasing day by day, security is becoming an important issue. Internet security attacks are becoming threats for the users and their private data. There are many types of internet attacks which can harm the privacy and integrity of computer. Nowadays, different internet attack types are combined such as security exploit, commonly used by malicious hackers, and computer viruses resulting in a very complex attack that, in some cases, is beyond the general scope of anti-virus or security software. In this paper, some of the major Internet privacy issues would be explored and how to combat privacy issues which concern us the most in growing Internet market.

Keywords: Threats, phishing ,worms , denial of service , Trojans.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.3 (June-2015)