The dangers on the Internet arise from all sorts of different motives. On the one hand, perpetrators are trying to personally enrich themselves or to specifically harm their victims. The increasingly widespread knowledge of "hacking" means it has become a kind of sport, which often attracts juveniles competing to see who can be the fastest to overcome the hurdles of cybersecurity.
Regardless of the individual motivation, the perpetrators' intentions usually following certain patterns:
- Insight into confidential information such as company secrets, access information, passwords for bank accounts, etc.
- Hijacking computers in the LAN for the purpose of the attackers, e.g. for the distribution of their own content, attacks on further computers, etc.
- Modifying data on the computers in the LAN, for example to create further means of access
- Destruction of data on computers in the LAN
- Disabling computers in the LAN or the Internet connection
Note: We will concentrate on the attacks on local area networks (LAN) or on workstations and servers in these LANs.
