Types of Security Risk
Essential Apple User Magazine|July/August 2023
There are more security risks for your computer than just the common, run-of-the-mill virus. The amount of digital use the average person has over the course of a week has increased significantly in just a few years, and with it comes a legion of security related issues.
Types of Security Risk

Here Be Dragons

This isn't a definitive list of the possible threats available for the Windows user but here are ten modern risks that you face every time you power up your PC.

01 Viruses

Viruses have been around for as long as computers. They've moved on from simply displaying the name of the coder on the monitor, a kind of virtual vandalism, and now can disable and wipe the data off a hard drive in mere seconds.

02 Ransomware

Earlier in the year the UK was gripped in the clutches of the WannaCry ransomware infection. This particular infection exploited a vulnerability in Windows, and quickly spread throughout the NHS and other organisations, locking and encrypting the data on a computer until money was sent to those who unleashed it to the world.

03 Worms 

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