Many people, known as Hackers, want nothing more than to break through ours computer security and expose the sensitive information. With widespread use of personal computers, the pool for "hackers" to target grows every day. We hear about worldwide computer Virus, Trojan, or Worm wreaking havoc on machines across the globe.
For Examlple:
The mail attacker - David L. Smith
Smith was the writer of the Melissa Worm, which in 1999 became the first major e-mail macro virus. He deliberately posted an infected document to an alt.sex usenet newsgroup from a stolen AOL address. The worm, believed to be named after a stripper he knew in Florida, forwarded itself to the first 50 accessible addresses in Microsoft Outlook address books.
Companies like Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin and Lucent Technologies were believed to have had to shut down their email gateways due to the large amount of email the virus was generating. In his federal plea, he acknowledged that he cost caused more than $80 million to North American business, and was sentenced to 20 months in jail.
The Canadian teen – MafiaBoy
MafiaBoy was the alias for a 15-year old Canadian boy who launched a denial-of-service attack that crippled sites such as Amazon, Dell, eBay eBay and Yahoo in 2000, which led to an estimated $1.7 billion cost in damages. The affected sites were bombarded with thousands of simultaneous messages, preventing users from accessing for up to five hours.
Although by Canadian law his name was not released by authorities, media outlets later revealed that his name was Mike Calce. Courts sentenced him to eight months custody in a youth detention centre.
There have have many cases that we can found in internet. How our safe is our data?Even though the large international companies have compactness security system but they still the threats of online security problem there. Thus, as we know that how safety our data.........
For Examlple:
The mail attacker - David L. Smith
Smith was the writer of the Melissa Worm, which in 1999 became the first major e-mail macro virus. He deliberately posted an infected document to an alt.sex usenet newsgroup from a stolen AOL address. The worm, believed to be named after a stripper he knew in Florida, forwarded itself to the first 50 accessible addresses in Microsoft Outlook address books.
Companies like Microsoft, Intel, Lockheed Martin and Lucent Technologies were believed to have had to shut down their email gateways due to the large amount of email the virus was generating. In his federal plea, he acknowledged that he cost caused more than $80 million to North American business, and was sentenced to 20 months in jail.
The Canadian teen – MafiaBoy
MafiaBoy was the alias for a 15-year old Canadian boy who launched a denial-of-service attack that crippled sites such as Amazon, Dell, eBay eBay and Yahoo in 2000, which led to an estimated $1.7 billion cost in damages. The affected sites were bombarded with thousands of simultaneous messages, preventing users from accessing for up to five hours.
Although by Canadian law his name was not released by authorities, media outlets later revealed that his name was Mike Calce. Courts sentenced him to eight months custody in a youth detention centre.
There have have many cases that we can found in internet. How our safe is our data?Even though the large international companies have compactness security system but they still the threats of online security problem there. Thus, as we know that how safety our data.........
2 comments:
Did you think our data is safer than before?
I think is better than before, because of many anti virus, spyware, and firewall, these software all can protect our data. Furthermore, we need to ensure our computer not being used by third party just can ensure our data is safe.
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