In today’s world, almost everyone uses the internet on a daily basis. People use the internet to shop, pay bills, plan and organize family or business events. Internet has become a major part in people’s modern life style. In today’s society, most if not all of us have some sort of information about ourselves on the net. As more and more people uses the web daily, internet security will play a big part in keeping our information secure from unwanted eyes. In developing some security protocol for the web, they have found that internet threats can be global as well as domestic. Malicious activity, Web-based attacks, and Bot-infected computers are just threats security protocol faces every day. Malicious activity usually affects computers that are connected to high-speed broadband Internet because these connections are attractive targets. These programs can be viruses, worms, and Trojans that are secretly written into an ordinary program. The purposes of these codes are to search and destroy data, running destructive or intrusive programs, stealing sensitive information, or compromising the security or integrity of a victim’s computer data. Since the finding of these codes, the maker have modified it and made it harder to trace. These programs can lay dormant for days without being picked up by the computer.
A web-based attack is when the attacker breaks into a legitimate Web site and posts a virus. The malware on a Web site would then makes its way down on to a user’s machine when that user visits the host Web site. Activities will begin once the new malware has established its presence on a user’s machine. The common malicious activities will take place on the user’s machine without them knowing it. This type of attack has evolved to viruses in your e-mail or even videos that are downloaded from the web.
Bot-infected computers are similar to worms and Trojans,