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Cyber Attacks that generally takes place !

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Unethical practises in the field of IT have resulted into many problematics areas we need to tackle , such as different forms of cyber attacks .  In the following lines , we are going to discuss the general attacks that takes place :- 1.Spamming -  It refers to the sending of bulk - mail by an identified or unidentified sources . In non-malicious form , bulk advertising mail is sent to many accounts . In malicious form , the attacker keeps on sending bulk mail until the mail - server runs out of disk space . 2. Worms - A worm is a self-replicating program which eats up the entire disk space or memory . A worm keeps on creating its copies until all the disk space or memory is filled . 3.Malware - Malware is a general term used to refer viruses , worms , spyware , adware, etc.In other words it is unwanted software that someone else wants to run on your computer. 4.Computer Viruses :- These viuses are malicious gram or codes that cause damage to your dat...