20Jan 2017

INFORMATION SECURITY THREATS: COMPUTER HACKING.

  • Cihan University/Sulaymaniyah. Utara University Malaysia.
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The purpose of this paper was to study information security threats, information threat, and security threats source with a threat agents. It focused on the meaning of hackers and perceptions of public against the word ‘‘hackers’’ with a special emphasis on different types of hackers within organizations and in the society. The empirical literatures provide the best way to prevent the problems of hacking in the society and shows that white hats, black hats and spy hackers motivation strategies are largely involved and effective to check organizations performance. It proposes quantitative approach with the design and descriptive for this study. The questionnaires will be used will be selected as a means to collect data with a simple random sample of the company\'s employees as observers / participants in the study.


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[MunadhilAbduljabar Alsalim, Ahmed Munadhil Alsalim, Amr Hail Ghilan Al-madhagi and Salah Mortada Shahen. (2017); INFORMATION SECURITY THREATS: COMPUTER HACKING. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 349-356] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Munadhil Abduljabar Alsalim, Ahmed Munadhil Alsalim, Amr Hai
Cihan University/Sulaymaniyah

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/2753      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/2753