June 07, 2024
Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world.
On today’s episode, Saudi Arabia confirms that Hajj will begin on June 14, with Eid Al Adha falling two days later on Sunday, June 16.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to address the US Congress on July 24.
The death toll from an Israeli strike on a UN school housing displaced families in central Gaza rises to at least 37, with more people feared killed in the attack.
Cryptojacking: Compromises a device or network to mine cryptocurrencies without an organisation's knowledge.
Distributed denial-of-service: Floods systems, servers or networks with information, effectively blocking them.
Man-in-the-middle attack: Intercepts two-way communication to obtain information, spy on participants or alter the outcome.
Malware: Installs itself in a network when a user clicks on a compromised link or email attachment.
Phishing: Aims to secure personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
Ransomware: Encrypts user data, denying access and demands a payment to decrypt it.
Spyware: Collects information without the user's knowledge, which is then passed on to bad actors.
Trojans: Create a backdoor into systems, which becomes a point of entry for an attack.
Viruses: Infect applications in a system and replicate themselves as they go, just like their biological counterparts.
Worms: Send copies of themselves to other users or contacts. They don't attack the system, but they overload it.
Zero-day exploit: Exploits a vulnerability in software before a fix is found.
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