Cyber security Attacks: Exploiting weaknesses

Abstract

Due to the technology growth throw the years, Hackers are evolution a divers and sophistication methods to attack systems security. Mostly these attacks occur to get personal benefits from harming the system physically by steeling and destroying devices that contain precious information or non-physically (logically) by alter and eavesdrop on sensitive data and more than that. This paper surveys aim to discuss the most common cyber security attacks types, what the mechanisms that used in these attacks and how to prevent the system from these threats. In particular, it concentrates on exploiting the system vulnerabilities to steal information and gain benefits from it.Mohammed Baz received the Ph.D. degrees from the University of York, in 2015 in the field of applications of statistical inference on designing communication protocols for low-power wireless networks. Mohammed is the author of a number of published papers in recognized conferences and has acted as a reviewer for anumber of IEEE journals including IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Access journal, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. Now, Dr. Baz works for Computer Engineering Department in College of Computers and Information Technology in Taif University and has been a member of multiple committees related to academic fields as well as participant in research projects. Moreover, he has taught several courses and supervised several capstone projects.