Academic Paper Summary
The first page on the paper A Study of WannaCry Ransomware Attack written by Dr. Supreet Kaur Sahi. The paper identified hacking as a legal action for research testing, and so on. Cracking, on the other hand, is illegal hacking, which can happen by using a different mechanism; thus, different attacks might take place. One of which is malware that is used to take over a system. Therefore, As security measures, users must be aware before downloading from the internet or using the network. As security breaches could be physical, managerial, or technical. Furthermore, data needs to be encrypted prior to being sent outside the local domain. However, incidents could happen. Therefore, when identifying any threat, the security team should step to handle the situation. In May 2017, the WannaCry attack affected more than 2,00,000 computers in more than 100 countries, which an example of a security incident. The WannaCry attack begun by scanning for vulnerable TCP 445 on the public internet. It
