Cyber Warfare And Cyber Crime - 1272 Words

Cyber Warfare is the use of computer technology to disrupt the activities of a state or organization, especially the deliberate attacking of information systems for strategic or military purposes (Oxford Dictionary, 2016). While this definition may seem fitting on a global basis the idea of cyber crime can encompass any valuable information of an individual, company, government, or military entity. The term hacker came about in the early 80 s defining a couple of people where were proficient at manipulating computers. However, in 2016 the Oxford Dictionary defines hacker as a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data . In the early stages of cyber crime hackers spread programs called worms, computer viruses and†¦show more content†¦Having a set of technologies that are more globally used, provided hackers the ability to infect computers on a much wider scale, thus having a larger impact on society. Common technologies allowed programmers to target these technologies, such as email, on a significantly wider scale. Gaining access to address books and sending out email to large groups of people, known as spamming. Programmers also learned how to send out email as someone else, known as spoofing. Contained in these emails might be instructions from your bank to change your password. Users would click on the links, be rerouted to a web page that looked like their bank, but was actually a page developed by the hackers. Once the users entered their user ID and password, the hackers had all the information they needed to access the users accounts. In the early 2000 s new criminal opportunities arose by attacking Web sites. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks took place by having large numbers of computers accessing a Web site at the same time. This provided cyber criminals with two things, global visibility, and financial opportunity. As technologies evolve and advance, so do the abilities of the hackers. Now, the goal is to stay one step ahead. It is not a matter of if a system can get hacked, but rather a question of when. Prior to the introduction of the internet, being able to access a system network could take a tremendous effort and the effects were