Hacking security
Kayla Williams
Hacking Security
Hacking [1] generally refers to the unauthorized intrusion into a computer or a network. Security [2] is defined as the state of being free from danger or threat. Hacking security is an uncomplicated term, one that hasn’t been defined. Based on these terms and definitions combined, hacking security is defined as the invading of one’s privacy on a technological level. This invasion can expose some of the most important information about a person including personal, financial, health and more.
Targets and Attacks
Government Services
Recently, sixty million users were affected due to the weak security for USPS website. This led to exposure to its database that consisted of emails to phone numbers, mailing campaign data, social security numbers, possibly credit card numbers, access to request account changes for other users so they make changes to the email addresses and phone numbers of other users, access to street addresses, who lived in each residence, and data of everyone who lived in the same household as those who logged into the site. This data breach took this organization a year to resolve these problems. In other words, these issues were aware of but not fixed right away. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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One wouldn’t have expected such high vulnerability considering that USPS is part of the government and one would hope it's more secure than expected. This leads to a concern of ethics and safety. One should be concerned that its possible for the “hackers” to gain access to other branches of the government as this was too vulnerable to access.
Healthcare
Unfortunately, healthcare companies are easy targets in terms of hacking because it's maximized vulnerability. It can easily take weeks or months before one realizes there is a data breach. This allows too much alloted time for hackers to access as much information as they want or need. This type of information contains social security numbers and dates of births as companies only spend 3% of their IT budget on security. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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Based on Acquisti’s claims in regards to how it’s becoming easier to discover more personal information about people. However, these data breaches don’t help considering we are already vulnerable to these security concerns. These data breaches along with the online presence of people makes it that much harder for people to remain anonymous or limit their anonymity from the least amount of people as possible.
Conclusion
Overall, one can suggest that its prevalent for companies to become more serious in terms of online security as one will have personal information that can potentially not be retrieved once its been exposed. It’s necessary that companies maximize their budget and efforts to ensure the safety of their online users to avoid or limit the number of data breaches if this is possible. This would be useful as people are already sharing minimal information online with the lack of awareness that no one is truly anonymous and there is a small chance of one finding more personal information about them.