It has been a while since my last blog, but I felt that today would be the day that I needed to add to it. Earlier today, for a split second, I witnessed on Yahoo, the word "Cybersecurity" as a top searched word. I'll be honest, I had never seen the word as a top searched word on Yahoo, ever! This actually gave me chills. What prompted people to start searching for that word in particular? Why has it never come up before, or at least that I have seen?
About a month ago, GoDaddy was hacked. This took down many sites, including some of the servers that my school has hosted through GoDaddy. For about 4 hours, I was without access to my school site. Believe me when I say that I was panicking, though, not from the actual outage, but not being able to gain access to my school. Now we are hearing of banks getting hacked. If you type, "Site Hacked" in the yahoo search bar (make sure you add the quotation marks) and click to filter by time of past month, and you will get 150 results. Look through them. It is amazing how many sites have been hacked and how they were hacked. Many of these resulted in data being released to the public.
I recently read somewhere that the field of Cybersecurity will be looking for employees in the future but will not have enough to fill the jobs available. Come on people! Understand that this field will be needed. The hacking that is going on and what is being released to the public just has to stop or at least be slowed. The country and even the world cannot have this happening on a daily basis. If none of you have had a chance to watch Cybergeddon by Yahoo & Norton, you need to find it and watch. Here is the link: http://cybergeddon.yahoo.com/#home One might think it is all fiction, well, the story might be but what is going on could in fact happen in the future. If you like the CSI shows, you should like this because it is produced by none other than Anthony Zuiker, who produced the original CSI's. If I have some facts incorrect there, please feel free to correct me.
What this all boils down to is managing your security on your computer properly. As I have mentioned in my previous posts; use strict passwords, firewall, anti-virus software, keep your computer up to date with all updates needed and keep all your information you use on the computer confidential. Follow these rules and you will help keep these types of attacks from happening.
