South Korea raises alert after hackers attack broadcasters, banks - Yahoo! News In the on going development of cyber warfare- the North Koreans seem to have effectively hit the South and some of their institutions. The Chinese especially and other nations to some degree are performing daily attacks and incursions to our networks creating loss of service & data as well as learning how to manipulate our systems in every regard. They have been successful in gaining access to most any business, industry and even .gov systems. How much have they learned, that is the question, that worries many late into the night. When they make their move, like the NK did to SK, what will happen to us. How hard would it be to shut down the national electrical grid, turn off the cooling systems on our nuclear plants to cause meltdowns, or reach into our nuclear silo's and reprogram the missiles to hit our friends- and then launch them..... Just a question I suppose, that we may be able to answer to some degree as Monkey's but what are you doing to prepare for this potential event? On a more personal level, what are you doing to prevent identity thieves and hackers from gaining access to your computer, keeping them from things such as your bank or credit card account information or your SSN and other personal information?
Two things really. One, I have no personal info stored on my computer anywhere, unless you count my taste in books, or what sites i visit. and while they could gain access to my email, I have a junk mail account for anything suspicious and two, I never use a credit card on line. If i need to order something, I have a cut-out do it for me, and I pay cash for what he orders.
U think your electrical grid and nuke plants are connected to the internet? Really? This sounds like something a politician would say right before trying to pass a bill to "protect" you from |-|@x0|^5 by tracking EVERYTHING you do on the internet. Oh wait...
Electrical grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And if you think they are not- you are wrong. The smart grid has been in place for some time and is in a continual state of being expanded and improved upon in all sources of energy production and distribution. Coal fired plants, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar or whatever the primary souce may be, are tied to the grid by network to determine demand and what their customers require for output and so on. Where you have a doorway in via the network, someone will always be looking to exploit the entry through that door for whatever purpose. You just have to have the know how, resources and intent to access these systems as they are robust with security, but then so is the Pentagon and they were hacked recently.
bah...while u can look up your usage data im 100% certain that there isnt an "off" switch. There is a BIG difference between accessing stats and telling a nuke plants cooling system to shut down. And to answer OP question on how to protect yourself...give the hacker a good paying job in IT that he/she would lose if ever caught expoiting...(worked on me)
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New clue in South Korea cyberattack reveals link to Chinese criminals - Yahoo! News Sounds like more than a just a handfull of PC's were hit in the attack recently.