Examples Of Hacking In America

Some people like to hack out of revenge. In today’s political climate – that makes sense. We are noticing more and more that the liberties they have been afforded us aren’t always for the benefit of the people. The power to vote has been something minorities were only awarded when it was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson outlawing the discriminatory voting practices adopted in Southern states after the Civil War. The fear of this country’s future political climate is a concern not only for Americans, but also internationally. “Fear of cybersecurity threats has plagued the 2016 presidential election since June when the Democratic National Committee site was hacked, with the U.S. government later determining the culprits were

The US should not retaliate in a cyber-war because it can cause lots of damage to our water supply, cellphone towers, trains, airport landing lights, and even our daily lives. If we were to go to war with Russia or another country that is more experienced in hacking, the results would be terrible. The other country would be able to malfunction our airplane equipment. They could make the plane go out of control, malfunction the landing gear, or take complete control over the plane. They could hack into our banks and take our money which would leave the country in debt. They could damage the stock markets and make any company go down dramatically in business.

According to “Inside America’s Hacking Epidemic”.”Cyber Attackers have breached the pentagon, State Department, and the White house, stolen the personal data of an estimated one half of Americans in attacks on banks and tech companies like yahoo. But people think that this is the correct way to use technology and a lot of the hackers are getting away with their attacks, we need to have tighter and better security, and according to “Inside America’s Hacking Epidemic”. “The government has hired hundreds of cyber detectives to montair federal agencies for breaches, and more than 6,000 hackers have been recruited to U.S Cyber Command”. Some would say that's more than enough people to get the job done. But in 2014 “They attempted to do at least 79 times- the results would be nightmarish says Tony Lawrence”.

The Internet has changed and advanced modern society in unimaginable ways since its conception. Banks, transportation, entertainment, and even power and sewer systems are now controlled and operated through the Internet. This has allowed major improvements to society as a whole. Power is now delivered more reliably, many people can now access their banking information remotely from their phones, shopping can be done completely from the comforts of the home, as well as many other amazing things. All of these things are convenient and helpful, but have exposed American citizens and infrastructure to the new threat of cyber based attacks. These attacks can be directed at American institutions or to the general population. I believe that the threat

Private organizations in the United States come under attack weekly if not daily and their cyber defenses must be kept up to par otherwise there will be an extreme loss of information and resources. FBI director James Comey can be quoted as saying “There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who 've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don 't know they 've been hacked by the Chinese” (Comey). Comey can also be quoted as having said that, “China was seeking to obtain "information that 's useful to them so they don 't have to invent" (Comey). This stolen information can be used against these companies when brokering a trade deal or even Chinese companies could begin manufacturing American goods illegally

In the article “You Have Almost Certainly Been Hacked” (thisweek.com), the author discusses how hackers are gaining access to private information. He specifically mentions the weaknesses in security programs, the severity of cyber attacks, as well as the potential defenses available. Poor cybersecurity has cost millions of people billions of dollars, tanked their credit scores, and devastated their lives.

Internet hackers may sound like a less threat but they can be a big problem to the government and to your financial needs. Hackers can get through the toughest fire wall, “a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication.” They can find out your Facebook password or even your bank account password. To take a step further on what they can do, hackers can break into your online bank account, be able to transfer money to their bank account and leave you bankrupt. The professional hackers usually go after bank companies, transferring the bank’s money over to their account online without anyone knowing, then they can hide their tracks by either framing you or another civilian. Plus, hackers can get into very important documents from the government revealing our secret military tactics, military bases, or natural resources and energy source. Which they can sell or use the information against us to attack each one of these places, and leaving us vulnerable for that one moment to be killed. The government can prevent any of these from happening by overseeing what people look up or see whose is breaking down firewalls. By using key words, NSA can see whose looking up how to bomb the U.S.A. which can lead their computer. If they have a

An example of this is Uber’s “God Mode Hack”. This allowed users to extrapolate the exact location of other Uber users and track their locations. Two former Uber employees told BuzzFeed news that this “hack” was never available to Uber users, but we know that’s not necessarily true. However, 4 years ago, it was discovered that this particular “hack” was not available anymore, according to a subreddit for Uber drivers. Another example of this is the famous Equifax hack. On July 29, Equifax, one of the biggest data archives in the United States, was discovered to be hacked. This exposed the data of 143 million Americans, about half of the entire U.S. population. On September 7, Equifax announced that it was hacked. The three hackers have long since been found, but this still poses as a threat for personal information. A third and final example of this is NASA and the Department of Defense. They were successfully hacked by Jonathan James and Scot Gary McKinnon. James hacked the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency in 1999. He also got the source code for the life support systems on the International Space Station. It took NASA alone $41,000 dollars to repair the damage he had done. McKinnon hacked into almost 100 computers, 97 to be exact. Sixteen of those computers belonged to NASA and 81 of those belonged to other parts of the Department of Defense. This just goes to show how dangerous information online can be, but imagine what companies can do with that

Adam Segal’s “The Hacked World Order” reveals many prevalent issues in today’s technologically centered society. Starting at Year Zero, June 2012 to June 2013, the battle over cyberspace witnessed world-changing cyberattacks. This was accomplished due to the fact that nearly 75% of the world’s population has easy access to a mobile phone, and the Internet connects nearly 40% of the total human population, which is nearly 2.7 billion people. With that being said, cyberattacks are becoming a more realistic form of terror.

First, The Chinese military hackers made an attack on the U.S government but were caught because they accessed Facebook on the same server. Second, Hector Monsegur was a hacker of the LulzSac hacker movement but were caught by the FBI because he made a mistake. Third, Paula Broadwell who was having an affair with CIA director, used anonymous e-mail service to contact him but were caught by the FBI. “Governments are happy to use the data

How would someone like to go shopping this holiday season and go to checkout just to find out that your credit/debit card are being declined? As they begin to investigate, they start to realize that the problem is much more than they expected because their identity and personal information was stolen. Cybercrimes have become a main concern for the United States. Therefore, cybersecurity should be one of the main concerns of security in this day and age. With cybercrime, a person can be attacked anytime, any day, and anywhere, where there is internet access. These attacks affect just about every American in one way or another. Cyber-attacks are generally conducted by foreign countries to hack into United States companies to gain access to Americans’ personal information for malicious reasons, disrupt the functionality of the government, and to impose their agenda against the United States.

Throughout the United States today there are many attempted hacks going on right now, most unsuccessful, but some are successful. Major businesses as well as minor businesses have had to invest in a good security systems and making backups of data to protect themselves, as well as their clients, from attempted hacking and the risk of sensitive information being leaked out ( such as social security or credit card numbers). As a result, there needed to be more action taken up against hackers, which brought up the demand for laws and regulations. New cyber security laws are being passed to stop or trace hackers back to their initial roots. However, these new laws, invade citizen’s

Government: One of growing cyber-crime and very dangerous at high scale is cyber-crime against government. As terrorist may use cyber space to crack into the government or military maintained websites and can get access to the very secretive information or files which can damage the safety of the county and the citizens of the nation at large.

The potential of violations can come from numerous sources (Lawrence & Weber, 2011) (Consumer Information). Recently Equifax had a data breach of their customer’s personal information. The hackers accessed the names, social security numbers, birthdates, and addresses of 142 million American consumers (Consumer Information). This is frightening and happens more often that we think. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers executive, ”Cybercrime has emerged as a formidable threat. Over the years millions have fallen victim to theses attacks. In a survey of 583 U.S. companies, 90 percent said that hackers breached their company’s computers over the last twelve months (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). Cyber crimes occur when hackers attempt to damage or destroy a computer network or system of company’s data. Criminals will use one of the most harmful systems around. This system is called a zombie. A zombie is

Cyber criminals take pride in creating chaos, and the chaos that cyber criminals inflict on their victims can be crippling to individuals and corporations. We have all heard about hackers getting information from major retail chains as well as information being leaked that included Social Security numbers for millions of people. We use the internet with somewhat of a naivete expectation that all of our information is safe. That is, until something untoward occurs, and then it can be all out panic.