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Recent Cyber Security Attacks and Their Mitigation Approaches – An Overview

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Applications and Techniques in Information Security (ATIS 2016)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 651))

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The advent of digital media, Internet, web and online social media has drawn the attention of relevant research community significantly and created many new research challenges on cyber security. People, organisations and governments around the world are losing a huge amount of money because of having cyber-attacks. For this reason, cyber security has become one of the most difficult and significant problems across the world. Currently, cyber security researchers of both industries and academic institutes are analysing existing cyber-attacks happening across the world and are developing different types of techniques to protect the systems against potential cyber-threats and attacks. This paper discusses the recent cyber security-attacks and the economic loss resulted from the growing cyber-attacks. This paper also analyses the increasing exploitation of a computer system, which has created more opportunities for the current cyber-crimes. Protective mechanisms and relevant laws are being implemented to reduce cyber- crimes around the world. Contemporary and important mitigation approaches for cyber-crimes have also been articulated in this paper.

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    Abdullahi Chowdhury

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Chowdhury, A. (2016). Recent Cyber Security Attacks and Their Mitigation Approaches – An Overview. In: Batten, L., Li, G. (eds) Applications and Techniques in Information Security. ATIS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 651. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2741-3_5

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