Security (BC-SEC)

Targeted attempt to evade system security to alter the system or to confiscate information.

Attacks can be classified as either active or passive. Active attacks attempt to alter system resources or affect their operation, while passive attacks do not actively affect the system, but are used to gain information, for example, by means of eavesdropping.

There are also a number of well-known attack types such as:

• brute force attacks
• man-in-the-middle attacks