HACKING

Did you know that hackers exposed 110 million Americans personal information and roughly half of the nation’s adults in the last 12 months alone. 47% of U.S. adults had their personal information exposed by hackers. In December 8 at New Hampshire the hackers are alleged to have collected the credit and debit card data from over 80,000 victims by hacking. China has highest percentage of hackers, is that 41%. Kevin Mitnick, he has the world best hacking recode and he’s known as “black hate”. In now times big multination brands or company offers prize to hack his own brand or company. For Example google offer $2.7 Million prize fund for those that can hack the chrome OS and Apple offers $1 Million. Hackers are problem because of cybercrime, cyber extortion and virus attack.
Hackers are problem because of earning money through business (cybercrime) for example transection money, hack data and sell those data to some on else, hack social sites and expose personal information. Cybercrime is on the increase as new technology allows hackers to be even more anonymous and more dangerous when attacking your computer, network or site. The number, type and seriousness of cybercrime attacks have all increased. Black hat hacker claim he can make $15k to $20k an hour and also he claim like that they can hack 300 billion bits of data in second. Black hat says like that “making money by hacking is easier than brushing your teeth”. For example in 2014 international hacking rings has stolen as much as $1 Billion from more than 100 banks in 30 countries. In Australia, one hacking group hacked almost $154 Million data thru marketing company. Facebook is the King of social networks with 1.24 billion users. Facebook accounts are hacked 600,000 times daily during users’ log-in, the social networking site conceded in week. Last year hacker stole the most sensitive personal data for 21.5 million people.
Secondly, hacker is doing cyber extortion by expose such thing like your bank account data, holding sensitive data hostage and other personal information. If a hacker steals top secret government data then they has a very good chance of making millions. Other reasons are that some hackers just hack for enjoyment; their main objective is to cause as much chaos as possible of companies and organizations. For example, in 2007 that had Nokia pay a huge number of euros in blackmail cash. The Finnish phone manufacturer was being held hostage by a hacker who managed to steal an encryption key used in its prevalent Symbian operating system. The attacker threatened to make the key public if Nokia didn't meet payment demands, putting Symbian at risk of other criminals using the key to upload legitimate-looking but malicious apps to phones worldwide. LUIZSEC group make $6.7 Billion by blackmailing (extortion) thru hacking.
Do you know that thousands of Computers are being infected with some kind of Trojan/Malware virus each second? Virus is also called cracker. More than 317 million new pieces of malware computer viruses or other malicious software were created last year. That means nearly one million new threats were released each day. When hackers release a wave of malware-laced spam emails, it only takes 82 seconds for someone to get duped and become the first victim. When hackers successfully break into a particular type of company after that they demand of Millions of dollar to fix that program. For example, MyDoom is considered to be the most expensive virus in the world and in cyber security history, having caused an estimated financial damage of $38.5 billion. And it became the fastest-spreading e-mail worm ever.
The average cost of cybercrime for U.S. retail stores more than doubled from 2013 to an annual average of $8.6 million per company in 2014. The annual average cost per company of successful cyberattacks increased to $20.8 million in financial services, $14.5 million in the technology sector, and $12.7 million in communications industries.