Title: Describe types of cyber threats.
Course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals (10302-I) > Section: Understanding Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities

Description should include, but not be limited to

- authentication (e.g., password attacks, biometrics attacks)
- social engineering, including phishing and other scams
- web application attacks such as injection attacks and scripting attacks
- exploitation of operating system and application software vulnerabilities
- malicious code and malware
- denial of service attacks
- acts of terrorism and how they present a threat
- pandemics and how they present a threat
  - About 75 percent of new human diseases are caused by microbes that originate in animals. These include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), respiratory syndromes, Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, Nipah virus (NiV) infection, and Zika virus. Several of these have spread extensively in human populations to cause a global epidemic (i.e., pandemic).
  - Population growth and expanded interactions between people, animals, and the environment over the coming decades are expected to increase the spillover of new disease threats from animals to people.

- natural disasters and an evaluation of such threats in the recent past
  - The effects of rising sea levels, more severe storms, extreme and prolonged drought conditions, and severe flooding pose a significant risk to critical infrastructure that provides essential services to the American public.
  - Ongoing and future changes to the climate have the potential to compound these risks and could have a major influence on infrastructure operations.

- accidents or technical failures
  - the potential for accidents and failures is often reached when infrastructure is pushed past its intended life
  - unintentional failures.