A Review on Cyberattacks and Their Preventive Measures

Every year many individuals and organizations suffer from cyberattacks, which include data loss, information hacks, transaction problem, and unauthorized access of information or data. The frequency of these attacks is increasing day by day and it's creating a lot of problems or threats in our life. These attacks can be extremely damaging to businesses as well as people. Therefore, we must know about cyberattacks and their preventive measures as many of us are still unaware about it. The objective of this paper is to create awareness of the various types of cyber-attacks and lay the foundation for their cyber security planning. In this paper, we discuss different types of cyberattacks and the tools used to perform these cyberattacks. Moreover, this paper presents a clear picture of some attacks that helps people to understand how attacker accomplishes all these attacks. Finally, we discuss the preventive measures.