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Cybercrime and cyber warfare and the effect on the society
Submitted by Reza Rafati on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 19:13
The internet is a second world to a lot of people, they work online, network online and share information online. This is all great of course, why would we stop knowledge getting spread, there are no dangers online right?
The online community is changing fast and we are starting to see what has been happening behind the screens of the internet. There is a world of cybercrime active online.
The cybercriminals are now focusing more on networking sites and they are also going after gambling sites.
This field has inspired them because there is a lot of information to be collected.
I can search twitter and see if you are home or outside. Or I can add you as a friend at a social networking site and gain information about you or I can send you a file infected with malware.
We have to be critical to who we trust online. Cybercriminals have achieved hacking industries by supplying USB sticks with malware to employees.
This website explains how cybercriminals love to exploit the unaware.
The society suffers by these cybercriminals as it ruins lives and exports money out of the market. We should start getting more aware of these issues in the world. I believe by training employees and students it will be a nice step to begin with.
Cybercriminals are organized and are making steps online but there is a other side, the world needs more IT security experts and with the coming issues of “cyber warfare” there will be a new market.
Training in IT security and ethical hacking techniques to social engineering prevention and analyzing malware attacks like the stuxnet virus. It has opened a new view to the IT industry. There will be seminars, webinars and books published about these issues.
We will need a penetration test standard and new protocols on defending techniques.
As the “enemy” evolves so do the IT security experts.
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Comments
The cyber crimes are real and unfortunately most people don't realize this until it's too late and become victims themselves. They think that just by visiting trustworthy sites they can stay away from any online threat but the truth is these days online criminals are very diverse and may infect any site out there without its owner knowledge, by the time he realize something is wrong you will have your computer corrupted. It is very important to know how to keep your data safe, a very good spot where you can find information regarding this issue is the virtualization security blog, it helped me stay away from many harmful malware.
I agree with everything in this article. Very well said!
~Joe
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