Case Project 1-3: Security Podcasts or Video Series Many different security vend
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Question
Case Project 1-3: Security Podcasts or Video Series
Many different security vendors and security researchers now post weekly audio podcasts or video series on YouTube on security topics. Locate two different podcasts and two different video series about computer security. Listen and view one episode of each. Then, write a summary of what was discussed and a critique of the podcasts and videos. Were they beneficial to you? Were they accurate? Would you recommend them to someone else? Write a one-page paper on your research.
Explanation / Answer
Yes, There is a YouTube channel Known as Technical guruji run and maintained by Gaurav Chaudhary is the biggest tech YouTube creator. He always uploads videos related to new inventions in the field of technologies and securities measures and security threats in the field of technologies. He upload a video comprises of threats like virus ,worms,spywere etc to a system ,he provides details like
Virus
He basically shares his knowledge about virus .He provide details that virus is actually a very specific kind of malware. A malware is only consider a program if it have abilities to infect another program and attempt to spread itself to other systems. It can perform undesirable activity to the system like sending spam to other systems , stealing your credit card or debit card information or passwords, or it can also have abilities to lock the system.
Worm
Where as worm is different from virus as it doesn't infect other programs. But it can cause similar types of damage to system as viruses do to the system.
Spam
Basically spam is a collection of unwanted email. Mostly comprises of advertisements, but it can also attempts to install malware software in the system or can provide links of different phishing which can lead to different frauds.
Spyware
He will also provide information related to spyware .A spyware is basically a software gathers information about someone without the knowledge of end user .
There is another channel known as TechChip
TechChip is basically provide details about Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is basically a type of attack meant to shut down a machine or network, making it inaccessible to its intended users.It basically breaks connection between two machines and thus preventing access to a service to a individual or a machine.It can also reset your TCP session. In order to prevent yourself from Dos you can use web application firewalls.