NETW 583 Week 5 Assignment: Hacking (GRADED)

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WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT HACKING PROF CHETAN BHATIA DEVRY UNIVERSITY This study source was downloaded by 100000845689434 from CourseHero.com on 05-06-2022 0... 7:45:12 GMT -05:00 HACKING Hacking can be defined as the breaking down of any kind of systems such as the computer systems, mobiles, and various other electronic devices. Hacking is a kind of processing in which any type of technology can be break down for various purposes such as some of them will use it for the good work while others will miss use it by performing many negative results. Coming to the computer systems, the hackers can hack all of your Operating systems, user name, passwords, and all of your personal data stored on your computer systems. Comparing to the computer systems security, hacker’s mainly focuses on the computer network and they have multiple reasons of hacking such as making money, challenging to the competitors, and to remove the weaknesses of the computer networks to make them more secured. Hacking the computer systems or the networks can also be defined as the Cracking, now a days it can be observed that how the various software’s are easily hacked and they are available for free download on various websites over the internet. How do these software’s get hacked or leaked is that one of the person will purchase it and then he publishes on the internet for free and with all the Key that is used to crack the software. Even though the users know that these websites from where they are downloading the software has malfunction in it, they are still interested in downloading that as it’s for free. It totally depends on the individuals on how they are utilizing the hacking method, and mostly they make good use of this technique and some of them will take them in the wrong way. In the past 2 or 3 years, U.S based companies like Chase, Home Depot and Target raised their questions about the cyber security towards their systems that were working around in U.S. In one of the surveys, companies came to know their cost of their loss which was 8.6 million in the year 2013 and in 2014 it doubled to $20.8 million (according to the web search http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/10/cyber-attacks-on-us-companies-in-2014). As in the last week we also discussed about the latest hacking method of “CAR HACKING” and it was really amazing, I mean they implemented such a way that they are able to control the car by their computer systems which is really fabulous I feel. I was only known of the car remote hacking like the hackers where only able to open the car but couldn’t start it whereas now they can operate the entire car system like start, stop, off the engine, and many other things. In similar ways they are many more other techniques of hacking N number of things around the world. [Show More]

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