Two computer experts, whom decided to be hackers, were arrested in Greater Manchester by e-crime detectives who were investigating an internet banking scam. The two arrested of some of the ones involved on the scam a man and a woman of 20 years old, and their scam consisted in using a malicious software called ‘ZeuS’ in order to manage to get and storage banking information such as credit cards and passwords in order to steel from a huge amount of people, without investigators being aware of it. The police department of Manchester said that the arrestment was a huge step for the e-crime unit as they located two of the main brains of the scam.
This issue even though in the article is addressed only to computers; it can also be address to cell phones and electronic devices with connection to internet. So this is a serious problem to society as everyone is being affected because this gang of hackers that already have their banking information can steal from them and make it look legal. So people’s money is being retired from their account but also these hackers make it look like citizen are retiring their own money, so there is no way that citizens can recover their money.
The ‘ZeuS’ program also finds its way to get social networking information, sites where many people held a lot of personal and private information. So even though this gang steals people’s money, they also get people’s information for their own purposes, which affects privacy into a great extent, as there could be kidnaps or robberies to people who could be a financial aid target.
so after reading the article and my comment and also the article published before of harmless hacking, do you think that harmless hacking can lead to some sort of hacking scam just to have fun?
ResponderEliminarThere is a lot risk in e-business because technology has no be able to secure or come up with yet a system that secures privacy. At the moment technology has been very creative and not been able to restrict its self.
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I liked the idea of e-crime and I think that it will be a job that, as technology improves, can be a crucial part of a police department. Although right now there exists specialists whose job is to track down hackers, I do not think that it is very developed (correct me if I am wrong). Also as I have stated before, I do not believe that there can exist a "harmless" hacking because, just the fact that some device, network or IT is being hacked puts the user in danger of having something stolen.
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