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CYBER SECURITY

Cyber security is a rapidly growing global issues, and without continued efforts to stay ahead of the criminals and foreign intelligence activities, we risk falling behind.

Cyber threats are growing and expanding everyday leading to an increasing of need to develop tighter security measures to make sure the protection of everyone. Increasing the usage of cyber space throughout the world has increased the complexity of cyber threats. Cyber security threats continue to increase in rate and variation. This has led many people to use and install better security measures to prevent the occurrence of these threats. Normally, threats can be categorized into malicious network abuses or attacks. Malicious codes including: worms, viruses, malwares or spywares and especially key loggers. Network abuses could include Spams, phishing or any other network related counterfeit. Lastly network attacks including intrusions and DoS attack. This paper looks into such cyber security threats and how they could be counter attacked

Hackers

The biggest nuisance and threat for the internet community of the world has to be hacker and spammers. Even the strongest security measures have not been able to contain this group of people. For instance, social sites like facebook and twitter were sweet spots for hackers in 2009 and 2010. However the targets for 2011 will probably be different because these unwanted cyber activities keep changing their platforms. They might now move to Smartphones since most people now own them. Hackers also take advantage of results on search engines to spread malicious content.  According to Cavelty (2008), the US government is now spending so much money in the investigation of cyber security because the recent attack on Google has pushed the issue so far. It has been argued by the security experts that this kind of security assault that can go beyond even the most sophisticated company's defense systems is a huge threat to the security of...