Cyber Hacking. After the first computer systems were linked to multiple users through telephone lines in the early 1960s hacker came to refer to individuals who gained unauthorized access to computer networks whether from another computer network or as personal computers became available from their own computer systems. The full extent of the damage is not yet clear.
Call it the latest phase in what could be a cyber era cold war. After the first computer systems were linked to multiple users through telephone lines in the early 1960s hacker came to refer to individuals who gained unauthorized access to computer networks whether from another computer network or as personal computers became available from their own computer systems. Government agencies and private companies rushed monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long running cyber espionage intrusion suspected of being carried out by russian hackers.
Call it the latest phase in what could be a cyber era cold war.
Microsoft declined to comment. Department of homeland security and thousands of businesses scrambled monday to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking campaign that officials suspect was directed by the russian. By 1975 a jargon dictionary for computer programmers contained multiple definitions of the word with only one of them meaning a person who was up to no good. But hackers can also use psychology to trick the user into clicking on a malicious attachment or providing personal data.
