Wanting to know more about the
cyber war I went to YouTube to try to find a segment on some recent cyber war
news. I found a segment, air on 60 minutes. Part one and part two are in two
separate links listed below.
Sources:
Something interesting I learned
from this video is a term called white plastic. What white plastic is, is a
piece of plastic that is identical in weight size and shape. Than once the
hackers receive the pin number they are able to use this ATM card and drain the
account to nothing. This method has been used to steal over ten million dollars
in a 24-hour period over 49 cities around the world. This is astonishing to
hear about all the money that has been stolen just because of a computer
hacker. Another instance is n Virginia with the computer medical records. This
instance shocked me that someone would harm others to this extend. Medical
records are important for a patient to have because they hold the prescriptions
that a patient may need to survive. They also hold a lot of personal
information like your social security number. This was all for a total stole
amount of ten million dollars. There are many other cases of these types of
examples. Either money is stolen from bank accounts and passwords or
information is taken. These risks happen everyday and these viruses can be
found in an email attachment or going to a certain webpage.
Link: http://news.cnet.com/i/tim//2010/07/28/1T0R2167_610x407.JPG
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