{"id":6932,"date":"2020-12-06T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2020-12-06T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:43:30","slug":"week-8-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/12\/06\/week-8-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Malware is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. A wide variety of malware types exist, including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, rogue software, wiper and scareware. Malware spreads in computer when you download or install an infected software. They also enter your computer through an email or a link. Once malware enters the computer, it attaches itself to different files and overwrites the data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Effects of Malware:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disrupts Operations\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steals sensitive information.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allows unauthorized access to system resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Slows computer or web browser speeds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creates problems connecting to networks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Results in frequent freezing or crashing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. A wide variety of malware types exist, including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, rogue software, wiper and scareware. Malware spreads in computer when you download or install an infected software. They also enter your computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805801],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-social-engineering-encoding-and-encryption","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}