hackers and cyber criminals

Cyber-crime has come a long way since the early days of the internet. Once 'hacking' was simply a way for computer experts to impress each other by getting through each others firewalls, but today it's a multi billion dollar business, enabling criminals to steal and blackmail.

What is even more worrying is that one in five people will be victims of a cyber-attack, and that they are currently occurring at a rate of one every quarter of a second.

It is because of this that Rowan Trollope, senior vice-president for consumer products at Symantec, the largest maker of anti-virus software, thinks it is time for online security experts to review their defences. Instead of simply erecting firewalls around computer systems and defending against multiple intrusions, he believes it's time to go on the offensive.

"It's time to stop building burglar alarms to keep people out and go after the bad guys," he said, speaking to Business Week.

How? By recruiting victims of cyber-attacks and former hackers.

Symantec have just released their new Norton Internet Security program, but this time the program enables the company to collect data about attempted computer intrusions and then forward the information to authorities.

internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail. In addition it supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications allow person-to-person communication via voice and video

The Internet is allowing greater flexibility in working hours and location, especially with the spread of unmetered high-speed connections and web applications.

The Internet can now be accessed almost anywhere by numerous means, especially through mobile Internet devices. Mobile phones, datacards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers allow users to connect to the Internet from anywhere there is a wireless network supporting that device's technology. Within the limitations imposed by small screens and other limited facilities of such pocket-sized devices, services of the Internet, including email and the web, may be available. Service providers may restrict the services offered and wireless data transmission charges may be significantly higher than other access

Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (or just the Web) interchangeably, but, as discussed earlier, the two terms are not synonymous. The World Wide Web is a global set of documents, images and other resources, referenced and interconnected by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and hyperlinks. These URLs allow users to address the web servers and other devices that store these resources and access them as required using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP is only one of the communication protocols used on the Internet. Web services may also use HTTP to allow software systems to communicate in order to share and exchange business logic and data.

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HEROES of TODAY

What is a hero? Who can be a hero? These are the question that linger my mind when i think to become a hero. When we read our history books we usually read the names of Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio and etc. who become heroes of the country. The way they fought back the freedom of the nation. Nowadays, when we read newspaper , print ads and others form of information, we read some personalities who were called as a hero. But do they really have what it takes to be a hero that we think of? For my own opinion, every one is entitled to be a hero on thier own good ways by doing great things. IT doesnt need to sacrifice one life or having super powers. It can be done in so many good ways an in so many good aspects. To render oneself towards an honest an goodness service, inspire other life, and extending greatness and goodness to others, can be a heroic act. Finally in this situation of life that we are in right now, we must not wait a hero to save us and to be our savior, instead we need to be a hero for ourselve rather than waiting for others helping hand.