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What is Cyber Attacks

Chapter 30
Handbook of Research on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies
They are attacks made in the virtual environment to obtain passwords and user information of individuals.
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Information Ethics in the Context of Current Developments
Yusuf Esmer (Faculty of Applied Sciences, Bayburt University, Turkey) and Ayşe Nihan Arıbaş (Vocational School of Health Services, Aksaray University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch030
Abstract
The emergence of globalization due to information technologies and the changes and/or developments brought about by globalization require organizations to have more knowledge about ethics and therefore to be more interested in this issue. The use of information and communication technologies in organizations in accordance with ethical values is considered important in terms of the integrity, functioning, and efficiency of both employees and organizations. Individuals, managers, organizations, and researchers have important duties in the field of information ethics in order to prevent the making of difficult mistakes that will adversely affect individuals and organizations during the use of information technologies. In this context, information ethics has been examined in this study in the context of recent developments all over the world, especially the developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic process.
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Chapter 8
Proposals to Win the Battle Against Cyber Crime
There are a huge number of cyber threats and their behavior is difficult to early detecting; hence difficult to restrict in the early phases of the cyber-attacks.
Published in Chapter: Proposals to Win the Battle Against Cyber Crime; From: Handbook of Research on Threat Detection and Countermeasures in Network Security
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Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: Review and Challenges
Cyber attacks use malicious code to alter computer code, logic or data, resulting in disruptive consequences that can compromise data and lead to cybercrimes, such as information and identity theft.
Published in Chapter: Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure: Review and Challenges; From: Handbook of Research on Digital Crime, Cyberspace Security, and Information Assurance
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Chapter 11
AI-Based Cyber Defense for More Secure Cyberspace
Any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
Published in Chapter: AI-Based Cyber Defense for More Secure Cyberspace; From: Handbook of Research on Civil Society and National Security in the Era of Cyber Warfare
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