Essays on Computer Hacking

Check your mail account now, see hundreds of spam mails in spam folders, maybe hundreds of spam emails that you receive every day. So where do you get these emails from? Do hackers sit down and manually send you hundreds of emails? Unfortunately, no! These…

With the era of technology and science advancement gradually encroaching on all professions and turning analogue hands to digital, it has become almost inevitable for an organization to be faced with various forms of cyber-attacks. Essentially, there is need for organizations to be aware of…

Many people are familiar with the concept of what a hacker does. On the other hand, relatively few people are aware of what a nation state actor is. A nation state actor is a group of hackers who work for a country’s government, committing espionage…

Hacking and Where it Stands from an Ethical Position Hacking has been around long before the time of personal computers. Hacking has been around nearly as long as telephone lines. In the documentary “Discovery Channel – The Secret History Of Hacking” the history of how…

Footprinting, which is the basic process that every hacker does before performing any attack. Where do they get information from? Well, in some cases people become the victims by themselves to the attacks such as identity theft. This usually happens when people share their information…

Magazines about Hacking Introduction Hacking for computers was introduced in the mid-1980s. It was “encouraged” at the time because there were many magazine issues about it, so that contributed to people discussing about it. Some of these magazine brands were: Family Computing, K-Power, and Enter…

Xtreme Rat is a readily available remote access trojan (RAT) founded in 2010 by the hacker named xtremecoder and written on Delphi platform. XTRAT is free to download and use. The source code can also be obtained for a price. This was used to attack…

My name is Patrick Haebig and my IB number is ……………… Today I would like to talk about computer hacking. I will divide my talk into several sections. Firstly I will talk about hacking in general and then, about how you can prevent hacking. To…

Creative Writing: The Big Scoop Hello, my name is Jack Williams. I am a reporter you have been hearing a lot about and this is how I gathered my information for my article on “Computers, Hacking, And USA’s Citizens” that has been causing so much…

Computer viruses have made some amazing progress from the beginning of PCs, when young programmers sought boasting rights, making malware intended for evil or irregular disorder. Presently, the programmers have gone proficient, and their aspirations have developed; as opposed to beginners working out of their…

It’s July 23rd and as I sit in the computer lab at CSUSB I contemplate through my old essays trying to gain some insight or topics for the research on this third final essay. I stared at the Essay 1 prompt and skimmed briefly through…

Michael Calce Michael Calce also known as Mafia Boy was a Hacker responsible for hacking Yahoo!, DELL, e-bay, CNN, ETrade in the year 2000. (HERSHER, 2015) At that time yahoo was a big multibillion dollar Company, his actions resulted in damage of around 1.2 billion…

This day’s technology is no longer safe as there are many threats such as Bluetooth threats, Mobile Application threats, etc. Many people do not know that not securing their Wi-Fi, Internet browsers, mobile devices and many other devices or applications make them a target to…

Lack of Security: There is some poor confidence in new methods as sometimes it fails to keep security for the cause of hacking or server problems and the customers show negative mentality towards the online transaction. In the case of payment, most of the e-commerce…

We use technology every day for work, transportation, obtaining data and to contact each other. Technology is the knowledge that includes tools, materials and systems. There are many kinds of technology such as communication, construction, assistive, medical, information, entertainment, business and educational technology. Technology has…