Article 5 - The 10 Most Mysterious Cyber Crimes

The author discusses that a computer hacker is considered the best if he is not able to be caught. He tells us about a list of the most infamous unsolved computer crimes known to the public. There are security breaches happening all the time in the computing world and most of the time in the best cases the offender is captured by the FBI or another law enforcement agency. I think that it is good that the FBI is able to catch most of these offenders but what is scary are the hackers that go unnoticed and commit some sort of breach and are never caught. One such case is the WANK worm which was a 1989 attack on the computers of NASA to protest the use of use using nuclear fuel in one of their rockets.

This attach is said to have cost NASA around a half million dollars to clean. I think that it is a disgrace that someone would do that since all they were able to do was get a small message out which did not change anything and actually took money away that could have been used for research. Another attack that happened was the breach of CD universe by a hacker where he stole 300,000 credit card numbers. He then used these numbers to blackmail the company but they did not want to deal with him. In the end as retribution he posted all the numbers on a website. I think that this type of attack should not happen and that website that do electronic transactions need to protect their data.

One of the worst cases of hacking is on military equipment. A hacker from Germany was able to hack into a military contractor and steal two thirds of the source code for missile and satellite guidance software. This is attack is very bad since it breaches our national security and allows us to vulnerable to hostile countries.

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Article Link - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331225,00.asp