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Hacking in Cyberspace
Did know you that your normal, everyday e-mail could be viewed and read by practically anyone on the Internet? It's like someone reading your personal mail without asking. Recently security on the Internet has received a lot of attention in the Press. The exploits of various "hackers" and the heroic efforts of the people who track and capture them have grown to soap operatic proportions.
This is not without reason. As more and more companies and services come online, the risk and the potential damage of security breaches increases. As the number of appealing targets grows, so does the number of hackers. The number of poorly administered servers on the Internet is staggering. Blatant security holes, bugs from old software that system administrators have failed to update, and compromised file systems are scattered all over the world.
One weak server on the Internet is a danger to all servers; if a hacker can attack and take over one system, he or she can use it as a base to launch attacks on other systems. The most important thing for hacker is hiding their trail. The more systems hackers can conquer, the harder it becomes to trace them. It is very important that everyone on the Internet spend some time shoring up their systems.
It is a simple fact of life that robbery, decryption, and embezzlement exists in our societies. It is only natural that this human trait will carry over to cyberspace. The Internet is a dangerous place. Just as it isn't always perfectly safe to go to the ATM machine alone at night, it isn't always perfectly safe to send a credit card number electronically. How safe the transaction actually is depends on the amount of time and effort we (both the customer and the vendor) spend protecting ourselves.
We have lot of naive Internet users who think all thy have to do is get connected to the Internet, get an e-mail address, and all is wonderful Â… The people who are selling the Internet are basically selling vacation land with beachfront property, and lot of people are buying it. They think it's a great investment. But when they show up, it's got alligators, it's underwater, and there's yellow fever. Any user of the Internet can be a victim of crime.
A lot of people are breaking into lot of systems. They are looking for information. An obvious symptom of intrusion is a change in login time showing your computer use when you were nowhere near your computer. Or, you might notice that a broad array of your files have been tampered with. Perhaps the system's memory space has been changed or somebody is sending e-mails on your behalf by using e-mail address.
Crackers, as they have come to known, are the people who are exploiting the security laxity on the Internet. They are high-tech criminals who enter systems through networks to do damage. Crackers may be thought as the malicious cousins of computer hackers. Although they're not
angels, hackers do not get a thrill out of breaking into someone else's computer and gobbling up information like crackers; they simply are people who are crazy about learning computer systems from top to bottom. Crackers, on the other hand, have gone from snooping for the thrill of it to exploiting the privacy of others for monetary gain. Their crimes include financial theft, software or hardware theft, and sabotage. As more people connected to the Internet, crackers are creating some real problems.
Old-fashioned scam artists have also been targeting the personal computer users. Be wary of online requests for personal information such as credit card members. As use of the Internet has expanded, people are finding the Internet being used for more traditional offences such as fraud. An example? Send me a cheque and I'll send you a product. You send the cheque and the product never arrives.
Law enforcement authorities believe system break-ins often go unreported because companies and individuals fear embarrassment or believe reporting an incident could give crackers information to help them break in again. A large number of victims never report they've had a problem. If they recognize it, they don't want to admit it. And can you imagine going up to your nearest police station saying, "Inspector, inspector, somebody hacked into my computer!".
A lot of people committing crime are taking advantage of the Internet. The nature of the network enables them to go to an area where none of this is against the law. Some of this occurs in one thousandth of a second. A typical investigation takes one and a half years. But in one-thousandth of a second, a cracker may have gone through four countries and stolen top-secret information. Annual computer crimes are difficult to estimate – one billion to five billion per year? Nobody has a clue. One problem with tracking crime on the Internet is that there's no central clearing house for reporting crimes.
The forgery and counterfeiting of business documents, cheques, entertainment and transportation tickets, stocks and bonds, coupons, licenses, birth certificates, passports, academic transcripts, job applications, and even monetary currency, can now be accomplished with nearly total perfection.
Governments are stealing business secrets through professional espionage agents and even malicious teenage crackers. They are using moles or informants in addition to the traditional methods of extracting information from unsuspecting business employees. A wide variety of safeguards are needed to combat these new crimes.
About the Author
Dr. Adnan Ahmed Qureshi holds a Ph.D. in IT with specialization in the induction of information technology in developing countries. He is the former Editor of Datalog, Computech, ISAsia and columnist for The News International. At present he is working as Senior Industry Analyst and IT Consultant.
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