WHY IS HACKING SO DANGEROUS??
Hacking may simply mean exploiting a computer system. However, the classification of hacking is in terms of Ethical hacking and the other as Non-ethical hacking.
In many companies the exploitation of computer system is desired for good purpose of the organization. For instance, if there are any loop holes in the system, a firewall is developed. Windows security in companies may be upgraded everyday. It is important to understand such attacks by the system with the help of new software needed to be incorporated.
The real worry is of 'Unethical Hacking, this is a serious worry for every individual user who is using a computer with an internet access. Here the user's data is stolen by someone who has a bad intention for his or her personal gain. Stealing someone's password, or ID information, or credit card information. The thing of unethical hacking does not end here.
If I tell you that "Unethical hacking" can cause an end to somebody's life, then perhaps one may realize its most malicious use. The people who do this are called 'Unethical Hackers' and are enlisted as cyber criminals.
What can unethical hackers do?
Unethical hackers can :
Shut down Power plants.
Haunt your house.
Out to shock and to death thereon by taking charge of one's pacemaker.
One can be put to trace for his location via a GPRS system.
The unethical hackers can do much more.
DO WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL IN DIGITIZATION??
We need to be cautious while getting our data digitized, especially such data which is accessible via wireless internet.
Tele-medicine is a field is becoming popular practically every where. However we need to consider the risk factors there, and should also affix the parameters.
THREAT TO LIFE: (coutesy-Theverge)
In 2006, about 350,000 pacemakers and 173,000 internal
defibrillators were implanted in patients in the US alone. That’s also the year
the Food and Drug Administration started fully approving wirelessly connected
devices. Notorious hacker Barnaby Jack was scheduled to give a
lecture on how to talk to and remotely take over these medical
devices. This cyber attack is deadly: a hacker could stop a patient’s heart from 30 feet away.
Jack passed away suddenly
last week, but that doesn’t make what he discovered any less scary.
He’s not the only one to have discovered vulnerabilities, either; security
analyst Jay Radcliffe has been studying how bugs and viruses can seriously disrupt
modern medical devices.
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