November 12, 2015
DUBAI // The chief of Dubai Police has denied reports an Emirati officer has been arrested for spying.
Maj Gen Khamis Al Muzeina said information being spread by social media users in Libya was untrue.
The officer at the centre of the allegation, sergeant Y S A, was fired from Dubai Police in 2010, he said in a statement issued via Twitter.
Claims being made on social media say an Emirati officer was spying for another country.
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Cryptojacking: Compromises a device or network to mine cryptocurrencies without an organisation's knowledge.
Distributed denial-of-service: Floods systems, servers or networks with information, effectively blocking them.
Man-in-the-middle attack: Intercepts two-way communication to obtain information, spy on participants or alter the outcome.
Malware: Installs itself in a network when a user clicks on a compromised link or email attachment.
Phishing: Aims to secure personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
Ransomware: Encrypts user data, denying access and demands a payment to decrypt it.
Spyware: Collects information without the user's knowledge, which is then passed on to bad actors.
Trojans: Create a backdoor into systems, which becomes a point of entry for an attack.
Viruses: Infect applications in a system and replicate themselves as they go, just like their biological counterparts.
Worms: Send copies of themselves to other users or contacts. They don't attack the system, but they overload it.
Zero-day exploit: Exploits a vulnerability in software before a fix is found.