UK Navy's website hacked! by Barbora Misakova

Hacker will be probably one of the most feared personas in the close future. Hackers’ ability to get anywhere and steal anything from personal computers is in this informative era the biggest threat. In 2005, when networking and security expert Eric McCarty found a flaw in the online system and was able to access any of the more than 275,000 student applications on the system, including Social Security numbers. Even though he didn’t abuse it, he was prosecuted and after he pleaded guilty he received a sentence of six months of home detention. Professor Pascal Meunier had similar experience in 2006, when his student reported that a physics website had a vulnerabi! lity. Even though he informed the site and its administrators to fix it, two months later it was hacked and police security turned to the professor and his student. There is innumerable quantity of cases like these, but many of them ended up even worse. While hackers are chased around the world, pages are still hacked. Last time it was UK navy’s website. Message on this website reads: “Unfortunately the Royal Navy website is currently undergoing essential maintenance. Please visit again soon.” Even though “there has been no malicious damage” as Royal Navy spokesman said, Britain’s Royal Navy was forced to take its website down immediately and start national cyber security program. The website was hacked just weeks after the government announced a 650 million pound ($1.05 billion). As it seems, the time for it has already come. After all there is no price that would be too high for security.

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by Barbora Misakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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