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Choosing a career

I’ve always been the quiet type of person, an analyzer. While most of the population sees things in black and white, I will be looking over for those uncover secrets or why things work the way they do, what makes them special? What I am trying to explain with this is that while the average internet user is satisfy with what they get out of their computers or portable devices I questioned what make the internet, programs, software’s possible? How they worked? What are their vulnerable points?
The biggest nuisance and threat for the internet community of the world has to be hacker and spammers. Even the strongest security measures have not been able to contain this group of people. For instance, social sites like Facebook and twitter were sweet spots for hackers in 2009 and 2010. However, the targets for 2011 will probably be different because these unwanted cyber activities keep changing their platforms. They might now move to Smartphones since most people now own them. Hackers also take advantage of results on search engines to spread malicious content. According to Cavelty (2008), the US government is now spending so much money in the investigation of cyber security because the recent attack on Google has pushed the issue so far. It has been argued by the security experts that this kind of security assault that can go beyond even the most sophisticated company's defense systems is a huge threat to the security of those using the cyber space and the general public in particular. One great example of what cyber attackers are capable of doing is the 2007 cyber-attack in Estonia. The attackers used more than one million computers that operated in over 70 countries to plot an attack on Estonia. They managed to bring down the entire country's computer networks including government and banking systems.
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