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    Hacking People Instead Of Computers- Identifying 5 Overlooked Vulnerabilities (Bitrebels) Internet users worldwide freak out once every few months because of newfound vulnerabilities hackers could exploit. For instance the Wi-Fi WPA2 KRACK attack from last month and the WannaCry Ransomware attacks from several months ago. It seems like our devices are a collection of unprotected vulnerabilities; information simply waiting for someone to exploit. But how true is this? Using the recent WPA2 vulnerability

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    Computer hacking is the practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside of the creator’s original purpose. People who engage in computer hacking activities are often called hackers. Since the word “hack” has long been used to describe someone who is incompetent at his/her profession, some hackers claim this term is offensive and fails to give appropriate recognition to their skills. Computer hacking is most common among teenagers and young adults, although there

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    Computer hacking has been becoming more and more of a threat in recent years and is being brought to the public eye more often. Large and small corporations alike, as well as individuals are at risk of losing personal information to hackers, opening up doors to cyber-attacks and theft. Statistics show that half of American adults have been hacked this year alone (Pagliery). Security experts and law enforcement say that hackers are actively scanning merchants’ networks for ways to gain remote access

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    There are many types of computer crimes and the most famous one is hacking. Hacking is the ability of gaining unauthorized access to systems or resources. Hacking is now commonly defined as someone breaking into a computer system. Trojan Horses is a program designed to breach the security of a computer system. An example of this is someone writing a seemingly harmless program, while the program really contains harmful code and data. There have even been programs that were “Trojan Horses”. These programs

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    The Past, Present and Future of Computer Hacking Abstract Society relies heavily on technology for many things, but our use of technology opens us up to become victims of cybercrimes, like computer hacking. Hackers can be divided into three main categories: novice, intermediate, and elite. Hacking has been in the information technology (IT) field for a while. The first hackers appeared in the nineteen sixties and hackers have continued to make progress since then. People hack for a variety of

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    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, shows the exhilarating tale of three men and their pursuit for two hundred thousand dollars. The film takes place in the wild South West during the deadly and gruesome American Civil War. The characters come in contact with the war, both on purpose and inadvertently numerous times. The film’s three main characters are Blondie, the “Good,” Angel Eyes, the “Bad,” and Tuco, the “Ugly.” Throughout the motion picture, Sergio Leone pays special

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    of students to use the computer during the school day. After school, she usually works at a part time job to help support her family. One evening Adelle visits the library of a private college a few miles from her family’s house, and she finds plenty of unused PCs connected to the internet. She surreptitiously looks over the shoulder of another student to learn a valid login/password combination. Adelle

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    Even though a great deal of individuals believe that hacking into their personal computers or into business systems is unethical, it is done continuously. Some individuals do it for kicks, others to cause havoc in corporation’s data system, others do it to steal individual’s private information and even their identity, while others hack to assist the owners in recognizing their vulnerabilities and finding solutions to protect their information. Some corporations actually hire individuals to hack

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    The Master of Deception The Master of Deception (MOD) is the first hacking gang in hacking history, and it’s also one of the most extensive thefts of computer information. MOD was founded by several blue-collar youth in New York, which aimed at proving their power in computer and network underground and beating other hackers and hacker gangs (TABOR, 1992). MOD traded boasts, tapping into telephone systems, stealing confidential information from government or other highly protected systems. At first

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    sendmail program and a flaw in the fingered network service. The worm was designed to go to every computer to check if it’s affected, and duplicate itself automatically. The self-duplication expedited loads of systems and finally crashed them, and of course, this feature would also alarm system administrators. Robert Morris got arrested 1989, and became the first person to be indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. However this punishment didn’t hurt his career too much, he is now tenure in

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