Computer attacks have been increasing recently, but not all have the same scale and the same harmful effects. Here is a glossary to navigate these troubled waters.
Phishing or smishing, phishing is the basic technique of the cyber-crook, already well known for a decade. Denial of service attack (DDoS) is the lowest technical level of the computer attack but also the most visible from the outside. Scraping Wild collection of data from a website using a computer script which harvests all available information.