The Hacker

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Personal data is important no matter who you are. The chance of hackers accessing your information and handing it out to whomever they please to is a scary and real thing. Watching what athletes participate in on their free time is absurd. The collages signing contracts with companies to do so, are no longer protecting their students. There is not, and never will be, a way for electronic data, as they are using, to be one hundred percent safe from falling into the wrong hands.…

Self-Driving Cars Self-driving cars are starting to be tested. Self-driving cars have hit the road and is said to be in the market soon. Self-driving cars are cars that drive by themselves and don’t need a driver at all. Several people might say that self-driving cars are useful, but the other half say that self-driving cars are dangerous and could have lots of consequences. Self-driving cars work differently than any car you have ever seen. Self-driving cars have radars, high tech gps systems…

attack initially took place in the month of June 2014 but the bank team couldn’t discover it till July 2014. There is a suspect that this attack was done by Russians and digging deeper there is also a suspect on the Russia government as well. The hackers tried to hack the databases and some of the applications which the bank employees use. They got access to the database of the customer’s details but as soon as the bank team came to know about it they prevented…

Risk Assessment: Pinellas County Schools Evelyn Davis November 22, 2015 University of Maryland University College EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Pinellas County Schools is the seventh-largest in the state of Florida. The creation of Pinellas County Schools came to be after a split in 1912 from Hillsborough County. Pinellas County serves 150 schools including magnets schools, career academies, adult education centers and a virtual school program. Pinellas County Schools with the help of 7000…

Technology and Social media has become an important part of our daily life so it makes it hard for people to live without it. Social media and technology gives us infinite access to information and lets the world become more connected unlike ever before. However, this infinite amount of access and connection also comes with a cost. Transparency brought by social media blurred the line between public self and private self . Thus, makes it hard for people to balance it. In “Electric Funeral”,…

so that is the question of the movie: What is the surrounding mass? What is it all and good? Matrix means a virtual world to hide the truth. The main character of this movie is Thomas A. Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is a computer programmer by day and a hacker named Neo night. Has spent his entire life sensing that there is something more, that there is something wrong and that doubt is reinforced with a message received on your computer: "Matrix has you." Neo discovers that the world in which he…

In today’s day and age, it seems that everything is revolved around social media. From posting about your day to uploading a video of you graduating, social media has taken on the role of being part of your everyday lives. Social media has so many great aspects that make living without it feel like we are in the Stone Age. One of the greatest aspects is the ability to interact with anyone anywhere. With social media, you have the ability to catch up on events or communicate with friends from…

number of complex cyber incidents and breaches occurring in the United States has become more excessive. As new advances in technology rise, new security issues in network infrastructures has increased from previous decades. For example, unknown hackers were able to achieve once of the largest breaches of OPM network in history. According to the Michelle Singletary, a Columnist for the Washington Post, stated personal information — birth dates, home addresses and Social Security numbers — for…

the hack whose information was part of the compromised data from the OPM database. The hackers success in infiltrating the OPM database showed vulnerabilities within the system. The OPM breach was motivated by highly dedicated adversaries that may receive and recruit sources from within. Larger organizations are prone to attacks similar to the OPM hack due to its size and anomalies in the system. Hackers often monitor online and system activity that can be identified through…