Today, the internet has enabled communications, exchange of information across the globe making a seamless, no boundary world. The development of web technology has also been misused by cyber criminals to commit various cyber crimes. The criminal exploits the loophole in a system thereby launching an attack from a remote location, which is difficult to trace.
A top official of the defense department of the Pentagon has revealed that a foreign intelligence service swiped 24,000 computer files from a US defense contractor in March in one of the largest ever cyber attacks on a Pentagon supplier.
The latest trend in cyber crimes is the cyber-attacks on various law firms. The law firms are turning a favourite spot for many cyber criminals. The law firms are supposed to maintain a lot of confidential and sensitive client information. The law firms generally maintain records of client information and other important information are not equipped with the latest security measures and patches. The security of the system which contains all these information should be given proper protection in terms of cyber security .The attacks are infiltrated by using remote tools which are disguised. Since the latest practices enable controlling the system from a remote location the attackers use such strategies to penetrate into the system.
The growing trend in the mobile services like 3G, the users are reaping benefits which they never had before. The mobile payment system, mobile internet, gps, video calling, live TV are services have captured the attention of mobile users. The experts are of the view that such services can be dangerous too. The services are vulnerable to many attacks like espionage, virus attacks to name a few. The remote tools are installed on your mobile through various malicious applications which enable the attacker to gain control over your mobile.
In the recent times, the US witnessed a horrifying attack of cyber war. A lot of high level websites were put down by a massive cyber-attack which was beyond imagination. The experts have traced a malware worm and virus which was used the attacker to execute the attack. The virus and worm had infected by the system running Windows Operating System. It was reported that these were sent by the way of an email attachment. When the email attachment was opened by the user, the virus and worms in the attachments were programmed in such a way that they had sent requests every second to the remote system.
One of the safest places in the world The Pentagon one of it’s largest ever loss of there sensitive data in March this year. The sources confirmed that 24,000 files were stolen in cyber attack.
Canada is turning out to be a centre for cyber crimes in the recent times. The report given by Financial Post indicates that a lot of cyber crimes have taken place from Canada. Lot of Canadian servers had traces of cyber crimes like phishing, theft of confidential information to name a few.
The world most wanted terror organization Al Qaeda has started plotting jihad on the internet against Britain and Western countries. The sources said they have launched teams to target key computer systems and the most important dominion of these countries.