Case Review: The Hacking Case Of Yahoo

The purpose of this paper is to touch on the issue of Hacking. It will go into detail about the history, evolution, future and prevention of Hacking. In addition, this paper will discuss different types of hackers and their motivation behind hacking. This paper examines the major impact caused by malicious hackers and give modern examples of such attacks. To conclude, it will predict how hacking will be in the near future and give the precautionary measures Information Security professionals can take to mitigate the risk of being victimized.

While the hacking is said to originate from large outside antagonists like China and Russia, unsuspecting American citizens may find themselves being targeted. Have you ever received a suspicious looking email or text message with a link attached and clicked on it? The possibility of the message having come from a hacker or being “infected”

Hacking is a relatively new technique to describe gaining unauthorized access to a network or computing device. A negative connotation has always been associated with the term. However, in order to catch hackers law enforcement will often reverse engineer the same methods that they use. Hacking has proven to become a major challenge for law enforcement. Device and network intrusions are not easily accomplished. The skills needed to perform a hack requires a succinct knowledge of computers and networking which can take years to fully understand. Society tends to ignore the intricacies of computers and often leave themselves exposed to potential invasions. Since a majority of the public are unaware of protecting themselves, illegal hackers can thrive knowing most people are possible targets.

With cyber crime on the rise across the globe, security of personal information on computers and the internet is imperative. On September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicly announced that a third party source had hacked personal consumer accounts. In the announcement of the breach, the company speculated that the cyber attack had occurred back in mid to late 2014. With a data breach of such large magnitude, the result was nearly 500 million individual logins and account information being compromised. A data breach of this size means that millions of people could possibly fall victim to identity theft in the future, depending on what information was obtained from the hacker. Yahoo’s announcement of the breach stirred a massive controversy over why one

The internet and computer have converted into main tools found in the people's lives. Computer hacking can be an identical acknowledged identified known way of crashing your computer system. The hackers are explorers utilizing their talents to damage a culture, world, contemporary society, population. Computer hackers are illegal users who crash into computer systems to steal money, change files or destroy important information, and by connecting dangerous malware. Hacking the electronic devices of innocent people is a federal crime. Hacking has become the world’s most dangerous crime and the biggest problem in the today’s society. Hackers can hack the computer in various ways, and by the different techniques. Besides, hacking most affects

Our society has a negative perception towards the word “hacker” that has just seemed to have stuck in today’s world. Nevertheless, individuals need to separate hackers from criminals. Many individuals believe that hackers are these evil rebels that operate individually in their parent’s basements and are driven by money or a desire to cause excessive evil in society. In reality, hackers are merely smart individuals that work in groups to bring change to social order. Sometimes hackers are misguided and misunderstood, but they often use their skills to expose hidden details of governments and corporations.

My project is going to be on the history of hacking. The term ‘Hacking’ was invented before 1990, but was not as popular or used for the same things by the 1990’s, it picked up a whole different meaning as technology advanced (Baase, 2015, pg. 230 para.1). In this paper I’ll be explaining things about when hacking became a criminal injustice, and its impact that it has on our entire humanity and societies. I’ll also bring up some information about hacking from the past such as how a Russian man named Vladimir Levin stole passwords by hacking into the system and stole billions of dollars from a company and dispersed funds into bank accounts all over different countries. England hackers impersonated Air traffic controllers, by giving bogus orders to pilots. Lastly the big credit card breach in Target stores in 2013. There are unintended consequences of hacking as for any technology. How do we feel as a society about if hacking is really good or really bad, what does it do for us?

A recent survey of security breaches at Fortune 500 companies showed that breaches in information security could result in annual financial losses of up to $24 billion. With that said, 90% of large corporations have found one or more breaches in their computer security and even worse, 70% of those detected breaches were considered severe, many resulting in proprietary information theft and financial fraud. Hackers can use several different paths through any application to harm the business. If the companies secure host and network-level entry points, focus of attacks usually shifts to the public interfaces.

Every day in the news we hear or read about another company that has had a breach of security in their network. These breaches lead to large amounts of stolen or compromised information as well as the loss of services within that company. In many of these cases the breach could probably been prevented had the company been able to find the vulnerabilities in the network. This is where ethical hacking comes into the program.

There are bundle of issues a rises regarding reports of hacking websites and databases and security holes in software. For example, there is lot of security warnings and patches for Microsoft software. Several banking and other business websites, including Barclays Bank, and Consumers’ Association in the UK, have experienced breaches in security where ‘a technical oversight’ or ‘a fault in its systems’ led to confidential client information becoming available to all.

Security threat is a serious issue in today’s world, and big organizations are the major targets of notorious hackers. In some countries, there are strict laws against hackers, particularly those that steal company’s data, and other important documents such as financial details. As stated in one of our recent articles, hackers are always ready to cause serious damage in your company, or even destroy the whole operational process.

A person only needs to look at the news daily to see that not one person or organization is safe from the threat posed by hackers. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) information stolen recently only highlights the threat of such actors. The OPM hack took personal records for any government employee whom had a security clearance provided by the United States government. The infringement of personnel data by a group of hackers only raises the concern of privacy for a majority of security clearance holders. Organizations have to look at all options to securing networks and data to ensure the security mechanisms that are in place stand up to persistent threats. Most organizations can spend extraordinary amounts of money to secure data and networks, but still leave vectors that a hacker can exploit. Once all security aspects are in place a good resource is then to bring in ethical hackers or White Hat hackers in to test the security of the system. The goal of ethical hacking is to uncover vulnerabilities from an adversary’s point of view so the security system can be improved. Ethical hacking should be part of the organizations overall information risk management program, which allows for constant security improvements. In the security life cycle, ethical hacking can be viewed as a security assessment. Ethical hacking shows the

Threats against big companies and people across the world isn’t a trending topic. A lack of protection from within the platforms can create internal, external, and political problems for people and business companies. Internally, hackers try to compromise computers and gather sensitive information from the inside as if it was their private property. Externally, hackers gather information for their own personal gain and to pose a great threat from outside of the business or person’s home because they can find access into the system a lot easier with new advanced technology. Over time, computer hacking has grown into something that is essentially a worldwide problem in countries like North Korea, Russia, the United States, and China that is. Overall, some these countries are trying to eliminate and capture hackers and produce a stronger more secure based program for all of the computer platforms. The literature points out that the only way of fixing the problem with hackers is to invest much more money into producing a more secure security system for all platforms that is basically impossible to decode or enter the program.

Throughout the years the rate of computer crime has only been getting worse. For one thing the security development is falling behind the hackers’ knowledge how to bypass the latest security advancements. If the hackers’ are ahead of the newest security breaches then it does no good on helping the average person because they are at risk of having information stole from them at any point in time (Martin). If new security advancements don’t find a way to get back in front of the hackers’ knowledge then this worldly known problem will only continue to escalate throughout the next generations and the following making them have to work harder to solve the problems that we created for them and did nothing to fix it (Bellmore). Right now it is a major problem that needs to be resolved but it has to be acted upon very soon with determination or else it will just continue until the point where we lose control and hackers’ rule the world and nobody can stop them (O'Harrow). In order to unravel this difficult situation it is important that these current issues we are involved in are throw of the track of going on a express train the wrong direction to the dark side of the hackers’ we need help to bring it back to the light.

First, computer technology raises ethical concerns because it has a constantly changing nature and so there are no specific sets of moral codes (Berzai 1). Dealing with ethical dilemmas related to computer technology is difficult because there is no overarching positive ethical force in the American business community. There are four main areas of computer ethics: computer crime, responsibility for computer failure, protection of computer property and privacy of companies and customers. (Berzai 2). The area of computer ethics, which is under most debate today, is computer crime and privacy. For example, unauthorized computer entry jeopardizes a company’s trade secrets and data. An employee who wants to sell such secrets to a competitor can commit such a crime and this crime involves jeopardizing company’s privacy. An individual’s privacy can be jeopardized in the crime of hacking. Hacking deals with the ethical dilemma of who actually owns the information and who should have access to it. Sometimes universities require students to hack into the university’s system to prove