Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Safe Guarding your stuff

The actions that this 18 year old guy did wrong was hacking onto the schools website to changed his grades, and changing the grades of some of his friends. He also stole the passwords from teachers. He was affected by this because he got 38 years in prison; also his friends got affected too. If I were a student at that school, I could have gotten affected by this because he might have changed my grades.

This young hacker created a malware that spreads itself through instant messages. When you send it the hacker is able to view credit card numbers and copy them. The consequences could be that they will lose all their money because he opened the link, he didn’t know what it led to, but he shouldn’t have opened it. Now the 19 year old has all their information.

An American employee of a company turned the company’s computers into a network of virtual robots, he makes extra money by doing this. He uses a botnet that infects personal computers all over Europe. His results were a sentence of three and a half years in prison. These actions affected the employer by infecting personal computers.

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