Cyber Security Free Course with Certificate

Cyber Threats are malicious attacks that damage and steal data, affecting digital life. Popular sources of cyber threats are state-sponsored terrorists, industrial spies, organised crime groups, hackers, hacktivists and cyber espionage.

In this module, the learner will gain knowledge on popular types of cyber threats in this course. You will learn about phishing attacks, SQL injection threats, man-in-the-middle attacks, malware, zero-day attack, cross-site-scripting, advanced persistent threats, password attacks, drive-by attacks, denial of service attacks, distributed denial of service attacks, eavesdropping attacks and AI-powered attack.

Phishing is the technique of stealing a user’s data from the internet or computer-connected device. Phishing is one security breach that can have disastrous and long-lasting effects on a victim. A few types of phishing attacks are Phishing email, Domain spoofing, Voice phishing, SMS phishing, Clone phishing, Typosquatting,  Evil twin, Whale phishing, Pharming and Spear attack.

The attacker sends a malicious query to the device or a server. The server is then forced to expose sensitive information.

The man-in-the-middle attack is a security breach where cybercriminals place themselves between the communication system of a client and the server. A few types of Man-in-the-middle attacks that will be discussed in this module are Session hijacking, IP spoofing and Replay.