Deliberate Act of Sabotage or Vandalism
Definition: acts aimed to destroy an information asset and, ultimately, damage the image of an organization.
Example:
-Hackers accessing a system and damaging or destroying critical data.
Hacking
Cracking
It is the permanent attempt of violation of the security of the computer systems, with justified ends or not. In the case of program cracking the definition is that of creator of cracks, iterally Mamluk, which are programs programmed for the lack of protection of commercial programs so that they can be used without limit.
Example
- David L. Smith (1999): Smith created the "Melissa" virus, which spread rapidly through emails, provoking. This fact has been considered one of the most important episodes of massive infection in the history of computer viruses. At that time, Microsoft, Intel or Lucent Technologies blocked their Internet connections due to the damages of "Melissa".
- Sven Jaschan (2004): at just 17 years old, Jaschan created the "Sasser" computer worm, which directly attacked the Windows 2000, 2003 Server and Windows XP operating systems. At that time, it was the cause of 70% of the problems experienced by the Internet in 2004. Microsoft offered a reward of USD $ 250 million to the person who gave away or gave information related to the author of the attacks. So far it is known that only in Germany the computer attack caused losses exceeding 150 thousand euros; while around the world the virus affected at least 18 million computers.
- Michael Calce (2000): with only 15 years, he simultaneously hacked eBay, Amazon and Yahoo !, web pages during Valentine's Day, through Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, which consist of an overload of the consumption of the width band, causing a loss of network connectivity. The teenager was captured, after overexposing his feat through different online chats.
- WikiLeaks (2010): At the beginning of that year took place one of the most controversial events that ever happened over the eye of the hurricane of public opinion, was the video that WikiLeaks revealed starring a group of American soldiers in Baghdad (it was he is known as an air strike in Baghdad on July 12, 2007). This is seen, as the military opened indiscriminate fire from two Apache helicopters, against a group of 12 people, among which were a reporter from the Reuters news agency and his assistant. The soldiers acted under the assumption that they were armed insurgents.
- Anonymous (2012): After the Megaupload storage service was canceled by the governments of the United States and New Zealand, based on the violation of copyright and intellectual property, Anonymous "avenged" that decision by simultaneously attacking the FBI websites, the US Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of the United States (RIAA), the Cinematographic Association of America (MPAA), and Universal Music. So far this has been considered one of the strongest attacks in the history of the hacktivist group.
If you want to learn more, please visit the next links:
Comments
Post a Comment