...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...
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...Biggest challenges today are to control the network security. Network security is having protection of networks and their services from unauthorized access, destruction, or disclosure. Malicious acts bring up the important topic of disaster recovery. Companies must have up to date copies of their important documents and software to prevent extended downtime. The saved information will let the company's employees continue to work while the IT department deals the damaged media. Hacking Into a Website Some being able to hack into a person’s web site is never going to be justifiable. A hacker is someone who illegally gets a hold to personal and private information in a computer system. This person then tampers with the information and start to cause problems. AT&T was a victim of someone hacking into their computer system and stealing the email addresses that Ipad buyers use when they were updating their information or activating there devices. There was a group called Goats Securite that uses different hacking ideas to get into AT&T website. A total of 110,000 email addresses where obtained during this illegal entry into the website. During this attack on AT&T new technology that was only out for a month, they quickly shut the product down and website to deal with the problem that occurred. The problem was handled very quickly, AT&T was notified on Monday that there system was hacked into and peoples information was taken and compromised, the very next day the...
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...understand the intentions of every single ethical hacker getting into vulnerable systems or networks. Technology is ever growing and we are encountering tools that are beneficial to the general public, but in the wrong hands can create great controversy, breaching our basic right to privacy, respect and freewill. The constant issues highlighted by the media always reporting some type of cyber crime, a study showing that nearly 90% of attacks happen on the inside [1] raising concerns of how easy it is to be working on the inside to be able to infiltrate attacks. Has ethical hacking finally come to the rescue for solving the problems or has it created new ones? 2. DISCUSSION A. Education and training The problem of teaching students to hack is still...
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...dSniff, Netcat and John the Ripper. DSniff passively monitors a network for interesting data like passwords, e-mails, files etc. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that has features that include port scanning, transferring files, port listening, and worse used as a backdoor. John the Ripper is a popular password testing and breaking programs but hackers would use it for the later. For dSniff, someone would have to first have access to your computer by the user either downloading the program by accident or the hacker pushing it to you. Then the tool is activated and monitors your computer for the right information. John the Ripper is used to break into computers and external hard drives. It would not be a tool that would be used to hack into a Facebook or Gmail account as they have extra measures for that method. Now that we know some different tools that hackers use we need to know some basic steps to stopping the hackers from entering your space. These few simple tasks will make it that much harder for someone that you don’t know have access to all of your valuable information. Keeping your system...
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...Ok so, there have been a few issues with the server that people are talking about. I understand a lot of people have issues and I appreciate on how fast the admins/Developer are taking care of these issues. I for one as a kohi player have never complained, but im here today to do just that *lul* I have no idea on how mods/admins do the banning, most likely reporting to the antiskid and the reports that come up in chat and responding to them as quickly as possible. (Sources: streams). I've died to hackers and understand the issue of people playing unlegit, so I do my part as a player, and ./report (name) him/her. In one scenario I've died countless amount of times to one hacker and nothing was done about it. Ive been acting professional about it and became so salty at the end, I screamed "help hacker, please tp" while getting a new bumhole from this hacker. I get that most of you reading up to this point will be arguing on how mods and admins are busy doing whats good for the server. Let me remind you, I was fighting a hacker, ./reported him/her, also did /helpop and screamed in chat while this person was blantely hacking and nothing was done about it. Minutes later, mods as well as admins are talking to each other about non - related issues, nothing to do with the server, streams, and something about Stimpay (cough fenboyz). I respect Kohi, the effort given by Prplz/ Travisvv as from what Ive seen is amazing. Im here suggesting that the server "hire, recruit" more mods/trials...
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...prevent hacking, one must first understand what is at risk to be hacked and the way in which the act is done. Technology has become a constant part of every day life. People now manage their bank accounts, pay bills, deal with highly confidential information, and even personal information online. All these aspects of technology in daily life are a temptation to others throughout the internet. Those who find themselves tempted perform the task of hacking, which leaves others and their personal information vulnerable. This paper will discuss society’s reliance of technology in all aspects of life; thereby, leaving personal information vulnerable. Also being discussed will be information hackers find tempting, the steps that some take to hack into systems allowing them access to normally unavailable information and the steps that can be used to help prevent hacking from occurring. Method In the task of preventing hackers from gaining access to information that could be harmful to the individual, you must first understand what information is at risk and how hackers perform the task of hacking. In order to do this, I had to research what systems/files are at risk to be hacked and the way in which hackers perform the task of hacking. By assessing these factors, one can find the programs and actions they can take that can help protect their personal...
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...Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin Albert Gonzalez’s convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison crimes were committed mostly between 2005 and 2008 while he was drawing a $75,000 salary working for the U.S. Secret Service as a paid undercover informant. The string of hacks began in 2005 when Gonzalez and accomplices conducted war-driving expeditions along a Miami highway and other locations in search of poorly protected wireless networks, and found easy access into several retailer networks. Once inside a local TJX outlet’s network, the hackers forged their way upstream to its corporate network in Massachusetts. Gonzalez obtained a packet sniffer from best friend Stephen Watt, which he and accomplices installed on the TJX network to siphon transaction data in real time, including the magstripe data on the credit and debit cards. Gonzalez’s sentencing follows two others related to the TJX hacks. Stephen Watt, a former coder for Morgan Stanley, was sentenced to two years in prison for providing the sniffer that Gonzalez used in the TJX hack. Watt was also ordered to pay restitution to TJX, jointly with other accomplices, in the amount of $171.5 million. Humza Zaman, a former network security manager at Barclays Bank, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for serving as a money courier for Gonzalez. He was charged with laundering between $600,000 and $800,000 for Gonzalez. Gonzalez’s sentence is among the stiffest imposed for...
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...LAB 1 Tuesday Hacking and Countermeasures Reconnaissance, scanning, Gaining Access, Maintaining Access, Covering Tracks I would follow the fives steps of hacking and start with step number one, reconnaissance, and a bit of scanning. I believe google would be a great tool for performing the first step in hacking, there is a lot of information on most things there. Other tool sthat could be used are NMap, Paratrace, and ScanRand. Social engineering is one of the best ways to get information abotu a company or person. In social engineering one could pretend to be a higher up just trying to run a check and get all sorts of information. One of the most common forms of social engineereing is a method called phishing. Enumeration is similiar to scanning a system for vulnerabilitiesthat can be used to attack the system. This is vital to a hackers object since it reveals the information needed to access the target. To avoid detection a good hacker will always cover their tracks. This is done by purging any information in the system that could even minutely show the trace that someone was their. You must be careful when doing this because sometimes its not whats there that gets the hacker busted but what wasn’t. An attacker will leave some sort of backdoor into the system. This allows for re-entry at a later time that doesnt appear in scans by the company As the security professional your job is to find holes in the...
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...Bibliofind Case 1) Due to Bibliofind's size the company they should have taken preventive measures to protect their information from attack. Many policies could have been enforced to protect the data and ensure a safe haven for their customer's information. Firewalls are essential to protect sensitive data in multitudes of ways. One of the steps would be to set up a secure channel in which to communicate with the client, such as SSL, TSL, PPTP, and/or L2TP. That way when a consuer trys to make a purchase through the website the transaction will be through a secure connection so that hackers cannot steal the information in transit. A firewall is able to perform many different tasks related to connection, including inspection, and application analysis. This makes sure the session isn't hijacked, and questionable code isn't injected into the packet stream. External firewalls can ensure that data is being processed from one system to another without interference. Also encryption streams can be established in the chance the data is moving internally along untrusted components such as a wan. The firewall could have also protected against brute force attacks by hiding the core machines that held the customer's transactions. It would create a wall that no one could see beyond. The only way to ensure this to work is to configure the firewall properly. When Bibliofind wanted to store their data they should have had a firewall as it's an important step in processing, log-ons...
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...What Hacking means? To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. But the two meanings are connected. To programmers, "hacker" connotes mastery in the most literal sense: someone who can make a computer do what he wants—whether the computer wants to or not. To add to the confusion, the noun "hack" also has two senses. It can be either a compliment or an insult. It's called a hack when you do something in an ugly way. But when you do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that's also called a hack. The word is used more often in the former than the latter sense, probably because ugly solutions are more common than brilliant ones. Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space).Hacking predates computers. When he was working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman used to amuse himself by breaking into safes containing secret documents. This tradition continues today. When we were in grad school, a hacker friend of mine who spent too much time around MIT had his own lock picking kit. (He now runs a hedge fund, a not unrelated enterprise.) It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why...
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...prevent hacking, one must first understand what is at risk to be hacked and the way in which the act is done. Technology has become a constant part of every day life. People now manage their bank accounts, pay bills, deal with highly confidential information, and even personal information online. All these aspects of technology in daily life are a temptation to others throughout the internet. Those who find themselves tempted perform the task of hacking, which leaves others and their personal information vulnerable. This paper will discuss society’s reliance of technology in all aspects of life; thereby, leaving personal information vulnerable. Also being discussed will be information hackers find tempting, the steps that some take to hack into systems allowing them access to normally unavailable information and the steps that can be used to help prevent hacking from occurring. Method In the task of preventing hackers from gaining access to information that could be harmful to the individual, you must first understand what information is at risk and how hackers perform the task of hacking. In order to do this, I had to research what systems/files are at risk to be hacked and the way in which hackers perform the task of hacking. By assessing these factors, one can find the programs and actions they can take that can help protect their personal information. Results Vulnerability...
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...to understand the intentions of every single ethical hacker getting into vulnerable systems or networks. Technology is ever growing and we are encountering tools that are beneficial to the general public, but in the wrong hands can create great controversy, breaching our basic right to privacy, respect and freewill. The constant issues highlighted by the media always reporting some type of cyber crime, a study showing that nearly 90% of attacks happen on the inside [1] raising concerns of how easy it is to be working on the inside to be able to infiltrate attacks. Has ethical hacking finally come to the rescue for solving the problems or has it created new ones? 2. DISCUSSION A. Education and training The problem of teaching students to hack is still a very serious issue...
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...In the business world, there had a lot of difficult challenges.Many business aim to the highest benefit or profit to gain a lot of money.Many company was using ICT(Information And Communication Technology) skill to enhance their business.ICT skills is very important the business world. By using ICT skills in the business world, one of company could save up a lot of money. A large company may use ICT skills to connect or contact other department to work as a team.The company use ICT skills could decrease the company expenses and produce worker to work as a team. Furthermore,the company can faster calculate the company montly expenses.A large company need ICT skills to calculate all of the department daily expenses. Mostly all of the company in the world was using ICT skills to increase their business into international. The company could sell product to other country consumer. Thus, dealer from other country could ask supplier for the company’s product. In this process, the company can increase their sales. The ICT skills can increase the sales of a company. Consumer could receive information by using the company’s ICT skills and make purchases. A shop also need ICT skills. It is because, a shopping mall could have 2 or 3 same brand’s shops but the amount of the stock is different.It could using ICT skill to calculate the remaining stock. ICT skills also have a disadvantage. It is because, nowsday there have many of profesional computer hacking.Many hacker could receive...
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...similarity of all this three meaning, finding out weaknesses in a computer or computer network and exploiting them. The early hacker based on the internet article, wrote by Robert Trigaux, for St. Petersburg Times in 2000, this hacker is in early 1970, John Draper who hack the phone system by blowing a precise tone to ask the system to open the line for long-distance call for free. Nowadays, the internet has become the primary medium to perform business transaction and store the important data. Internet also is a primary medium for hacker to do their job. In a modern ways to make all thing easier, all the of a person can be find in internet nowadays, that make the term privacy is no more important to someone[1]. By using this medium also, a hacker can get an IP of a computer, and can breaking the computer system either to upload or download something from it. In the next paragraph will elaborate more on purpose of hacking, the effect of hacking and the way to prevent hacking. The purposes of hacking that are happen on internet or networking system in entire world today is to steal. Steal what? That was depended on the hacker. But, there is hackers who hack to earn money. Usually, this type of hacker hacks into a bank system to make a fake transaction by finding the point of entry into an information system to get banking data. Based on internet article, by, Brian Williams on Wednesday, March 21 2012, a group of hacker had been caught for stealing 70 million dollar...
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...Elizabeth Scott Bits and Bytes Informatics 101 September 11, 2015 The article I have chosen to write about concerns the Internet cyber attacks that took place a few years back in South Korea. The cyber attack plagued over 32,000 computers and servers with a virus or “computer bug” (Bits and Bytes Powerpoint, Onesti & Richart). The virus crashed multiple computers and enabled them all to function extremely slow, or not function at all. This attack was targeted at banks and broadcasting computers (Pearson). Sources say that these attacks were traced to an IP address in China. However, this does not mean that China was at fault. The article states that North Korea is under suspicion for these cyber attacks. In lecture, we spoke a lot about the Internet and also something called a “computer bug” (Bits and Bytes Powerpoint, Onesti & Richart). Before lecture I did not know the origin behind the term computer bug, however, I learned that it was a literal bug found in the machine that was blocking one of the tubes in the computer, disabling it from doing its job. Later, the term eventually came to mean something that inhibited the computer from working properly. The hackers that caused disturbance in South Korea hacked the computers of many banks and broadcasting companies with a bug. In lecture we also discussed the importance and meaning of information. Information is data, and data is created by the users of the Internet (Onesti & Richart). During this hacking...
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