Security Risks Associated With the Use of Web Browsing, Instant Messaging and File Sharing software |
This research has been conducted in order to associate the security risks of the computers with the use of applications of Web-Browsing, Instant Messaging and File Sharing. The research has been conducted by isolating the traffic that these applications have generated, allowing accurate results. Each type of application has generated isolated traffic for forty hours, leading to a one-hundred-twenty hours of research. The results from this research have indicated that the Web-Browsers are submitted to a large number of attacks while the Instant Messengers and the File sharing applications are much safer since they are only submitted to very few attacks.
Bitsanis D, Papadaki M