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Lock your home PC doors! Hacker also in your breakfast| Category | | | Summary | Times are changing and as Mr. Gates and others predicted, computing is getting in everyone's home. Problems start when hackers also do.
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| | Body | Close your eyes and just look back in time. Apollo Mission wasn't possible without a Spectrum SPX 64 KB, and now, open them again and look to your PC. Any differences?
Do you remember films like "HACKERS"? Kids attempting to hack inside companies' computers.
Now, the battleground is changing to home PCs, which are now faster and more powerful than before.
Regular internetusers have now to deal with security problems. In their way, they have to learn terms like port scanning, firewall, exploit... nothing to do when in the past times, you could only find viruses in shareware disks found in your favourite computer magazines.
Some Hackers find home PCs good targets for spreading malicious code or pull together stolen computing resources.
I see that many others attack these PCs just to test the colorful brand new hacking tools they find on the net in such webpages like "H@cK4's P4r4d1zE" and a quantity of them try to learn how and why these programs work.
These acts can't be possible if security in home PCs is good.
Of course, info stored by regular users isn't worthy, specially that found in several computers with the File Share Exploit (Win9x), but only the fact of breaking inside is worth a morale boost for a newbie.
Nowadays, detecting a trojan is easy with the huge compendium of portscan tools that are on the net, and connecting is also easy (in the case it's not password protected). But, what about spreading the server? Here I see a difference between "hackers" and "anklebitters" (a Tsunomu Shimomura's word).
Spoofing identity is other use of home PCs with low security. Proxys and Wingates installed and bad configured by the user help hackers in their way to use their PC with evil intentions.
If before, people buying computers had to know how to use Windows, Word, and other pacific software, maybe in few years people will need to go to University to learn about computer security just to be safe.
Yeah, times are changing, and it's better to be prepared with your shields up. As I said in the title, don't forget to lock your home doors. |
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