On the dangers of hackers and Control Measures

[Abstract] hacking activities, with a profound anti-social nature, has become a major nuisance operation of the network, in response to the rampant spread of hackers, governments have set up specialized agencies to increase funding to step up to develop network security professionals, and have issued the Laws and regulations, and increase efforts to crack down on hackers.

[Keywords] Hackers jeopardize response

First, the definition and types of hackers

Earliest origins in the English hacker hacker, originally referred to the enthusiasm for Computer Technology, the level of skilled Computer experts, particularly programmers, but today, the term hacker refers to those who have been dedicated for the use of Computer network sabotage or mischievous guy In fact, hackers, hacker and craker can be divided into two types, hacker focused on research techniques, knowledge on its own help system administrators identify system vulnerabilities and to be perfect, but craker hacker is often said, a special Computer for the purpose of destroying the people this article referred to hackers, specifically craker, that the use of its Computer Technology, network destruction.


Second, the harm to society hackers

1 of endangering national security. With superb hacking techniques hackers, illegally broke into the military intelligence agency's internal network, interfere with the normal military chain of command work, theft, and tampering with the access to military Information, so that highly sensitive Information leaks, the intention of creating military confusion or political unrest .1990 April - 1991 May, the Dutch hackers access to the U.S. Department of Defense's 34 sites, including transfer of all the "weapons", "missile" and other words of Information In 1991 the Gulf War in the United States for the first time combat Information warfare, but the hacker soon attack the U.S. military's network while. hackers to steal U.S. military secrets to the part of the file to the Iraq July 7, .2009 South Korea suffered the most violent attack ever South Korean presidential palace, parliament, the NIS and the Department of Defense and other state organs, as well as financial, media and corporate websites firewall attack .9 South Korean National Intelligence Service and National Bank Web site can not be accessed, the ROK National Assembly, Ministry of National Defense, Foreign Affairs and Trade and other organization's Web site was not open, which is South Korea's strongest ever encountered a hacker attack.

2. Undermine social policies in order .1996 September 18, the CIA's website by a hacker destroyed, "the CIA" was altered into a "Central Bureau of stupid," a serious impact on the U.S. government's image .2000 February 7, the world-famous search engine --- United States, "Yahoo", due to hackers, most of the service came to a standstill in the next three days, there are several U.S. sites has been hacked, leading to service interruption in the worst February 9, the operation of the Internet throughout the United States fell by 26.8% performance October 16, .2006, Li Jun Chinese hackers released a panda Trojan, and a short time, resulting in several Chinese millions of users are infected, and spread to neighboring countries, the incident is extremely poor, is listed as the top ten viruses of the first year.

3, resulting in economic losses and undermine social stability In 1995, hackers from Russia • Vladimir Lenin on the Internet played a wonderful sly, he was the first invasion of a bank's computer system by hackers to profit, In 1995, he hacked into Citibank and stole a million, in the UK in 1995 he was arrested by Interpol, after he put the money in the account transfer to the United States, Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and other places the year 1999, Melissa virus (Melissa) to make the world more than 300 companies on the computer system crashes, virus damage caused by the nearly 400 million dollars, it is the first globally destructive virus .2000 May, the Philippines students O'Neill ? Guzman concocted the "Love Bug" virus caused the loss of $ 10 billion .2008, a global hacker organization, the use of ATM fraud in the overnight program in 49 cities from the World Bank in U.S. dollars stolen 900w According to <<USA Today>> reported that hackers each year to the global computer network to bring the estimated loss of up to tens of billions of dollars.

4 melee caused hackers in recent years, hackers began to tremendous political color, the Middle East crisis, India-Pakistan conflict, the U.S. war in Afghanistan have become a different political positions of hackers on the Internet melee reason .2000, right-wing forces in Japan, Osaka assembly, reverse the verdict openly to the Nanjing Massacre, to unite overseas Chinese hackers launched attacks war, repeatedly attacking the Japanese site, resulting in the Japan Science and Technology Department of General Services and the website was closed on April 1, .2001, China and the U.S. hit machine after the incident, gave rise to a round offensive against unscrupulous foreign hackers, allegedly captured in the May 4 operation, the White House website has a number of domestic hackers, nearly ten thousand users around the participation, in fact, this backed high-tech means to combat cyber attacks, greatly endangering the public safety network.

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In response to the epidemic spread of hackers, governments have set up specialized agencies to increase funding to step up to develop network security professionals, and have introduced Laws and regulations, and increase efforts to crack down on hackers.

1 legislative control as early as 1997, Germany passed the media bill, regulation virtual space, reflecting the function of Criminal Law protection of March 14, .1997 the Eighth National People's Congress by the fifth meeting of the <<Criminal Law> >, article 285-287, respectively, of invasive computer Information systems; delete, modify, add, interference, resulting in computer information systems can not function properly, serious consequences; the use of computer-implemented financial fraud, theft, embezzlement , theft of state secrets or other crimes, to "disrupt public order offenses or convicted and punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Act in January .2000, Japan introduced a plan of action anti-hacking countermeasures to prevent hacker attacks, and was formally implemented in February < <on the Prohibition of improper access to the legal acts of>> increased the penalties for hacking the same year in October, the U.S. Congress passed the <<Computer Security Enhancement Act>>, the network security into a legal management of the track. In September, Russia adopted a <<Information Security Concept>> to ensure the security of information systems .11 months, New Zealand, the country submitted a bill to computer network security and adopted, in addition, Brazil has also developed and promulgated for hackers relevant Laws.

(2) set up a special response agencies. 2000, the U.S. government established a Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Bureau of Justice and the Ministry of Commerce formed a special team to deal with computer security consulting and legal issues in order to protect the important U.S. computer systems from terrorist attacks. February 14, the same year, Germany announced by the Ministry of the Interior, Information Security Agency and the Criminal Investigation Bureau to form a joint special operations forces, specifically to combat hacker crime. MITI and the Japanese Ministry of Posts and 2.4 billion funding Yuan; Japan Defense Agency in 2000 grant of 1.3 billion yen, and sent to the U.S. anti-hacking training to build their own anti-hacking team. In addition, India was set up by the experts of the National Police Commission E, South Korea also established a special "Cybercrime Response Center."
3 to increase financial input. 2000, the FBI earmarked $ 1.75 billion for the capture of terrorist networks. And in the 2001 fiscal year budget for network security and network infrastructure funding $ 2 billion on the United Kingdom .11 announced that the annual allocation of 25 million pounds to establish a specialized body of experts to study the network security measures and means.

4 Convention on the development of anti-triad, the world of joint action. Hack is cross-border, so the world must unite to fight against hacker crime. 2000 October, G8 Information security experts held a special meeting to discuss ways to combat the use of computers and the Internet crime, including the United States more than 40 countries will join the European Commission to develop a <<Convention to combat computer crime>>.


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