Hackers & Consuming and Accessing of The Internet Discussion

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In the current era, a huge spike can be noticed in the rate of percentage in consuming and

accessing of the Internet. Almost all the prioritize corporations, companies, agencies,

institutions of this day whether government-run or private entities are hugely dependent on

the Internet for their daily work. The internet is used for communication as well as the

transfer of information that is crucial to the work of these organizations. Educational and

Research institutes are readily providing study and research findings online for the use of

potentially any person in need, this information and knowledge is being readily available and

utilized. Governments are providing information on matters of national importance to its

citizens directly through the portals of the relevant agencies. People may shop, watch movies

or videos, communicate, and even learn with the help of the Internet. Thus, the internet not

only stores sensitive and relevant information of the people but also of the various

corporations and governments. There needs to exist integrity, availability as well as the

confidentiality of such sensitive information for the Internet to function as a mere tool of ease

rather than a weapon with all the knowledge of every single human being, corporation and

government.

However, as may be witnessed from time to time the presence of its intrusion errors and

traffic controls almost all the systems and types of equipment provides chances to individuals

with malicious intent to attack and destroy or steal sensitive information. These attacks on

systems with malicious intent are called cyber-attacks and are carried out by people with

intricate knowledge of coding and the working of the various elements necessary for the

functioning of the Internet, who are called Hackers. Hackers study the code used to create

and run the applications and software and identify weak points which they can then

manipulate to can access the systems and carry out the cyber-attack. These weak points in the

code are called bugs and they exist in all types of equipment, applications, and software on

the Internet waiting to be found and exploited. The hackers may use these bugs to gain access

to the master code used to create and run the system and make necessary changes to the code

potentially stealing it.

Hackers are also of two types the ones who identify these bugs and report them two the

relevant authorities potentially helping prevent cyberattacks are known as ‘White hat

Hackers’ whereas the members with malicious intent are known as ‘Black hat Hackers’.

These white hat hackers help corporations and software developers, as well as governments,

identify points of potential weakness that may be exploited, thus preventing major security

breaches. But some bugs remain unchecked which results in major breaches in companies

such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Apple. The major software

developers have also announced cash prizes to any person who identifies and reports such

bugs. Modern devices come equipped with traffic, intrusion prevention systems or rectifying

those systems, privacy loss protection, and securing the content transparency functions such

as accuracy to control the spam, combating with virus, and URL transparency. Yet security

experts admit that nothing is 100% secure. There will always exist another weak point, new

vulnerability, or human error which will lead to one of the thousand attacks that these

companies or people face every day. The attacks on various data centres, servers, PCs, and

mobile phones are ever-increasing no matter how much the securities tighten. The newer

attacks are more advanced and more complicated making them more and more difficult to

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DISCUSSION: In the current era, a huge spike can be noticed in the rate of percentage in consuming and accessing of the Internet. Almost all the prioritize corporations, companies, agencies, institutions of this day whether government-run or private entities are hugely dependent on the Internet for their daily work. The internet is used for communication as well as the transfer of information that is crucial to the work of these organizations. Educational and Research institutes are readily providing study and research findings online for the use of potentially any person in need, this informa ...
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