Cyber Security, Biggest Threat Ever

[Selva Ganesh]

Cyber Security, The Biggest Threat ever in the history and in coming future for this world …

World is developing faster than a man had ever thought, moving towards the virtual world shifting every data and work in this Cyber world and apparently Terror is also shifting to this Virtual World, now we don't have Enemies dedicated from some country or from some nation , Our enemy do not have faces or any address to trace.

 He is Anonymous and with Virtue of that, He is the most Dangerous Threat and a Social, Cyber addict Terrorist, Terrorist with vast range of skills and techniques enough to Destroy almost anything in this world with some Clicks and Codes ... 

Thinking what kind of Cyber addict, what kind of Cyber attacker ...

No , Not that Web Site Defacer ... Not that Index page changer and Zone-h mirror maker but the one with Cruel Intensions against this World, against this Humanity, against you and all of us.

The one who was creating the disaster with troops and guns from long back and now have that power of Scripts and Codes to do more disaster within some clicks..

Check Out the Biggest Cyber Security attacks done ever in the history ..

Titan Rain

Titan Rain was the code name given by the FBI for a series of infiltrations into US military security, including NASA and Lockheed Martin - the world's largest weapons maker. Titan Rain was discovered by Shawn Carpenter, a Sandia National Laboratories employee in 2004, with many other military targets thought to be have been hit. The hack not only gained information to very sensitive material, it also left behind many backdoors and 'zombify' machines, meaning that any future hack could be now achieved easier. Known to be one of the biggest hacks of all time, it is believed that the original hack originated from China.

Mafiaboy

Michael Calce become famous for his alias Mafiaboy when he took down Yahoo!, the world's dominant search engine at the time in 2000, for a whole hour. He was 15 at the time. As well as this, Mafiaboy also attacked other companies like Amazon, CNN and Ebay. According to industry experts, the total amount of damage caused by Mafiaboy's attacks reached around $1.2 billion. Due to his age, he only ended up with a sentence of eight months open custody, restricted use of the internet and a minor fine.

Sony PlayStation Network

Earlier in the year, the news broke that the user IDs and passwords of over 77 million Sony PlayStation users had been stolen. This was followed by another attack on the network where information including the home addresses and credit card details were released online. Thought to be the work of LulzSec, it is estimated that the total damage of the hacks may range from $1 billion to $2 billion, making it one of the costliest hacks ever seen. {The Attackers are now arrested}

Epsilon

While not an instantly recognizable name, the hack into Epsilon is one of the worst data breaches in corporate history with a cost that could have reached $4 billion. Epsilon provide marketing and email marketing to manylarge organizations, seven of which appeared in the top 10 of the Fortune 100 list. The Dallas-based company send over 40 billion emails a year to more than 2,500 companies and it is estimated that it is in possession of around 250 million email addresses, with the true extent of the damage that occurred when these were compromised difficult to fully grasp.

Morris Worm

Robert Tappan Morris is credited for creating the first ever internet worm, albeit by complete accident. Morris created the Morris Worm as when he tried to find out the true size of the internet. But instead, he created a program that quickly spread over the vast spans of the global network and caused substantial damage, including at least 6000 computers becoming completely unusable after being affected. He became the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and was sentenced to three years of probation.

Adrian lamo

Lamo has gained a reputation as one of the most renowned hackers in history after some high-profile hacks into networks such as Microsoft and the New York Times. What makes Limo's attacks different to many others is that there was never any malice in his attacks. Instead he'd mainly just leave clues around the place on how these huge corporations could improve their security and pointed out to them any existing vulnerabilities. He gained the nickname "homeless hacker" after it was revealed that Lamo never used his own computer for these attacks, but instead preferred to use public accesspoints such as cafes and libraries.

Mydoom Virus

First arriving in January 2004, the Mydoom virus is thought to have caused the most amount of damage by any virus ever- estimated at $39 billion so far. A computer worm that affected Microsoft Windows, the Mydoom is the fastest-spreading virus ever seen and resurfaced as recent as 2009 as more attacks affected South Korea and the US. Its creators still remain a mystery but the first emails containing it emerged from Russia.

The Original Logic Bomb

The CIA used the Logic Bomb - a piece of code that changes the workings of a system completely - to dangerous effect in 1982. Without sending a missile or any other explosive device, the US blew up a Siberian gas pipeline which was described by an air force secretary as "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space." While there have been reports that this may be a hoax, the idea that cyber-attacks could be used in this way changed the world of the internet and cyber-hacking forever.

Georgian cyber attacks launched by Russian crime gangs

In 2008 cyber attacks, which coincided with the Russian military's invasion of Georgia in August 2008, were carried out by two separate groups. The attacks were significant because they made it almost impossible for citizens and officials alike to communicate about what was happening on the ground during the military operation.

Sven Jaschan

In 2004, 18-year-old Jaschan released the infamous Sasser computer worm, which went onto affect tens of millions of computers world-wide. It was reported that around 70 per cent of infected computers in the first half of 2004 were as a result of Jaschan's worm. It reached its highest level of destruction when it disabled the Delta Air Lines computer system, causing the cancellation of several flights. 

Gauss Malware

 A new Financial fraud Malware was introduced by the hackers in early 2012 which infected many users bank accounts through out the world , This was the first time that we seen a direct link between state-sponsored cyber espionage tools and stealing internet banking credentials. 

It infected thousands of machines without any known worm functionality ... although a Gauss malware Detecting tool was introduced last month by Iran CERT more details can be found here ... 

5^th Nov 2012 attack

Paypal, symantec, Imageshack,OSCO, NBC and many other Database hacked and Dumped by Anonymous

28,000 accounts of paypal Hacked by Anonymous Hackers against Government but is it so ????

Anonymous claims to be a team working for People but is that attack of hacking into paypal accounts for people ???

Government have no where indulgement with the attack but what happen with this attack is the people looses their savings with paypal…

Read more here…

The recent and latest part of James Bond 007 “Skyfall” shows how a Cyber Unethical Hacker with advance knowledge in Cyber Security can break it all to make even

The biggest Security Agency identified as “MI6” in that movie Vulnerable and Helpless infront of that Attacker.

The Attacker as shown in the film was so advanced that he Hacked the agancy Computers and steal all confidential data of the nation not only that but blast down the Head Quarter of MI6, Techniqally impossible to blast a Computer but as we all know nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

Similarly, a movie in 2012 namely DON 2 where the attacker uses a Cyber attacker a source to get through the tight and unbreakable security of a Bank and steal down the Money making plates.

Similarly, a movie in year 2004 namely DIE HARD 4 which was the starting show of threat through Cyber World for a nation in which a Team of Cyber attackers did a impossible trail of Cyber attacks in the nation and identified the trail of attacks as “FireSale”.

Cyber Security is the biggest issue , I tried my best to explain within the post rest is on you…

Share it with your friends and authorities to have some response or the alerts from these movies and incidents towards a black planet will become reality

Nellai Samurai