Hacktivism

Already, whistleblowers and journalists, who commonly defy governments’ expectations of how information should be used and shared, already face threats from those nations who disapprove of their actions--provisions like this could further endanger them. The United States has had to respond to quite a few “attacks” by Internet hacktivists in the last decade. One such attack was carried out by Aaron Swartz, a young entrepreneur and committed online freedom activist. Perhaps the first thing I…

group (Singer & Friedman, 2014). The hacking game has been taken to another level as politically motivated information systems hackers are now doing it in the open and is being acknowledged and accepted as a form of political activism. Political hacktivism is therefore posing serious threat to the security in IT industry as victims feel the monetary pain to forceful compelling to certain political affiliations (Shoemaker & Sigler,…

Describe how terrorist groups can make the use of internet to spread terror group messages and recruit new members. Give one or more actual examples of this. Many terror groups, whether Islamists or Marxists, nationalists or separatists, or even racists and anarchists have widely endorsed the use of internet to further their ideologies, raise funds, and in the recruitment of new members- both active jihadists and passive supporters (Weimann, 2014). According to Ressler (2006), most terror groups…

Cyber Attacks are now becoming more and more sophisticated. Anything we do online can be interrupted and disrupt in seconds by any cyber or internet attacks. Data we keep online is very vulnerable to cyber-attacks out there which are increasing in numbers day by day. Cyber-attacks changed in 2015, when Ukraine experienced the first recorded power outage caused by a cyber-attack. It didn’t last long but it adversely impacted the government, industry and people. (Campbell, 2016). Critical…

The New Hanging Chad Introduction One of the most significant examples of America’s Democracy is our open election and voting system for the most powerful position in our nation. The ability for each citizen to cast a vote for who they believe to be the most qualified or best suited to be the President of the United States is the quintessential definition of our freedoms. One of the biggest concerns for both candidates as well as the Federal Government during the 2017 Campaign has been the…

a server by sending a large number of requests requiring resource-intensive handling and processing” (“Denial”). By doing so, the router or server can not easily juggle all of the tasks, resulting in a collapse of the network. It is a route that hacktivism takes to show its defiance toward others who do not share the same humanitarian…

The Importance of Cybersecurity for the Future December 25th, 2014, a DDoS attack lands on major companies Sony and Microsoft. The result? Their servers were shut down for time varied on ranging from twenty-four hours to a few weeks. A DDoS is a distributed denial of service attack, and it is illegal. These attack are meant to take down companies’ servers. All of this could have been prevented if these companies focused more on their security rather than their profits. The group responsible for…

Over the years internet hacking has become more and more popular for tech savvy users on social media. This coupled with the fact that the tools used for hacking are easily accessible and easy to use create a recipe for disaster, at least for big companies that got in the way of a group known as Anonymous. Anonymous is an internet hacking group or hacktivist group depending on how one would look at it. They are best known for their attacks on the Church of Scientology, Westboro Baptist Church,…