Yianni Patsalos
Computers
Dr. Wolf
FBI vs. Hackers
On earth we have evil doers consisting
of muggers, rapists, murderers, and in the computer world there are hackers.
Hackers are the computer worlds evil doers. Hackers
are skilled people. They have the ability to disrupt,
destroy, and inhibit computer systems from functioning properly. This inevitably winds up affecting you and me
in some way. The article I read is about how the FBI is craking down on hacker
activity and how the hackers are strkining back.
The FBI has always been hit by
internet attackers but things just keep getting worse for them. Hackers recently attacked the FBI and
succeeded in shutting down its online systems. Reports of the hackers actions
have been recorded and “The FBI and Senate Web sites remained inaccessible
Friday as a result of the computer attacks. The FBI shut down its Web site
Wednesday after it was swamped by a denial-of-service attack. The Senate took
its site offline Thursday night after attackers broke into the public computer
server and replaced the congressional body's home page with a screed against
the FBI”. Hackers are getting smarter by being able to break into one of the
most secure systems in the world. After the FBI was hit they investigated their
systems and found that they were attacked with a denial of service attack. This
attack hits the system so heavily that it makes it slow down and eventually
stop functioning. The exact report is as follows: “other members of the hacking
community, contacted by MSNBC, said the FBI site was hit by what's called a
denial-of-service attack. In such an attack, the host computer is not actually
controlled by an outsider; rather, outsiders bombard a Web site with so many
simultaneous hits that it becomes overwhelmed and can no longer function”.
The FBI then beefed up their security
and started their investigation for the culprit. The FBI defiantly is stronger
than individual hackers but the hackers defiantly at times,
can cause problems for the FBI.
The
FBI will eventually catch hackers. There too large and smart a group to not.
They have technology at their fingertips and connot be stopped. It takes a lot
of guts to mess with the FBI but there are people out there with tremendous
skill who have no fear and feel they are above the law. The FBI defiantly wont stand for it. The United States Government wont stand for it either.
Works Cited
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-500973-2.html?tag=st.next