Again there is a rise in the threat from cyber attacks, mostly found coming from China. Their main targets are the information that has been stored in the Pentagon, but they have also targeted French, German, and British governments. They have counted the amount of attacks from Chinese hackers they an estimate of 1.6 billion attack happen each month. Even with a large amount of people trying to hack the Pentagon only a few have been successful in doing so. "Even the strongest security systems have holes," one 21-year-old self-trained hacker said. The Chinese government has been arresting many people for this illegal hacking and has even shut down a online hacking school that had over 180000 members. In 2009 they tracked a network of hackers called Ghostnet, which was the largest network of cyber attacks all of which were traced back to China. Many of the hackers now are targeting many oil and gas companies along with Morgan Stanley bank. These hacker are not just a threat to government, they are a threat to us as well. Your identity and bank accounts can easily be hacked into with today’s technology. The hackers today are finding ways to get around certain types of security making most security software today useless and they just walk in. This can be a huge problem to many people as if ones info is stolen then the hacker can easily get most of the things you own. I believe we should have a way to tack the hacker to the source and not just an area as China is a really big place to look for one hacker.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/18/growing-global-threat-chinese-cyber-hackers/#ixzz1JvPPnKwu
2 comments:
I agree. Along with your idea, I'd like to see more protection policies put into place and more awareness of these hackers given to the public. The best defense is if the public works to defend themselves.
I agree with you. Protection policies need to be established. If the public is aware it gives them a better chance of protecting themselves.
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