Essays on Computer Hacking

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 dollars. Deontology: It is an approach which distinguish between right or wrong of a certain action. The actions of Michael Calce or Mafia Boy are wrong and illegal. It is important that the people who knows about Calce’ actions should ...

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 hacking began was presented. It took an in depth look at Kevin Mitnick’s life of hacking: how he inspired others to follow a similar path: and what effect it has on the way the public perceives hackers. What will be answered opinionatedly is whether Kevin Mitnick was justified in ...

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 hackers. Base on the case study, having a weak password, leaving your Bluetooth on, not securing your Cloud allows victims to be an easy target to hackers as they can hack into their victim’s device or hack into their ...

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 and intellectual property theft against other nations through the act of hacking. Governments use nation state actors to expose other country’s data, documents and secrets in an attempt to gain the upper hand or cause chaos. An infamous example of ...

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 the passage. I then quickly pulled out my Final Essay 1 from my folder and began to peruse through it, reading carefully through every detail in my paper. The topic for my first essay revolved around hackers since I was recounting an experience from social media, ...

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 these various cyber-attacks so as to build the necessary armour in combating malicious cyber activities. Some of these attacks includes; Hacking, Phishing, Faceless blogging. Hacking generally refers to ...

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 without a doubt benefitted humans in so many ways. It helps increase production, makes work easier for people and has played a part in helping the disabled ...

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 tasks are done mostly using zombie computers. Hackers don’t have just one or two infected computers, a study has revealed— a hacker can control more than 1.5 million infected computers from just one computer.Like in movies, I’m not talking ...

Recalling a definitive target to stay yourself you have to consider the specific conduct by which your PC can be imperiled and your security encroached. Here, we examine a few basic mechanical gatherings and systems utilized by the electronic guilty parties. This is unquestionably not a thorough once-finished using any techniques, at any rate will give you a wide thought of the stipulations in structures and security frameworks, which can be mishandled by aggressors, and also their conceivable ...

These days the use of electronic devices and the Internet is increasing in frequency, and privacy is gradually valued by more people. What causes people to pay more attention to privacy? With the rapid development of the economy and the remarkable improvement of technology, it becomes easier to hunt for other people’s privacy, and many people violate others' privacy and rights even unconsciously. In response to the fact that more people are entering the 'Internet age', the Internet has ...

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 folks' storm cellar, malware makers are regularly part of a black market criminal posse, or working straightforwardly for a remote government or insight office. As the stakes have ...

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 uproar in many states and even in the government. Recently, people have claimed that I fantasized everything in the report and that I should work in the fiction field in stead of journalism, so here is the exact way I received my information for my ...

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 begin, what is computer hacking? On the whole Hacking is the unauthorised entry into a computer system. All you need is a P.C a modem, a telephone-line and some knowledge. In the last 20 years, computers made a tremendous rise in technology. ...

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 on various sectors like corporate, government and finance and in the year of 2012 it was vastly prevalent in the regions of the middle east and North Africa (abbreviated as MENA). Financial industries in US and European government agencies were ...

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz about "growth hacking". Most of us might still not be sure of what this concept really means. We all are acquainted with this term, however, it doesn’t have a clear-cut definition. Growth Hacking is the process of finding the right "hack" or trick that helps accelerate the growth and allow accumulative growth. Growth hacking, in the simplest sense, uses hacks or shortcuts that bypass traditional marketing approaches to drive business growth. The concept of ...