I found this article quite interesting. It basically described the upswing of digital gang warfare. This isn't anything like the typical gang warfare you find on the streets. These hacker gangs don't use knives and guns; they use YOUR COMPUTER!
Hackers create viruses and "Trojan horses" that creep into home computers through email attachments or websites that are already infected. Their purpose of infecting your home PC with a virus is to hijack your computer and use it as a "bot" that sends out countless spam messages and overwhelms websites with traffic. The number of infected computers has sky-rocketed, and security experts in the article consider it an "INTERNET EPIDEMIC."
The one thing that most hackers have in common is their motives. I think each and every one of these hacker gangs want to be able to say that they're #1. What's funny is the fact that these hacker gangs have to be up to date with protecting their hijacked PCs from getting hijacked by other gangs, just as we try to protect our home computers from attacks!
For example, the article describes a Russian gang that removed all other viruses and protected computers from getting attacked by every virus, except their own. The rival gang retaliated by creating a virus that spams AND attack websites run by the Russian gang. Security experts call it an "automated war."
After reading about the MyDoom virus of 2004 described in this article, I was so mad because my laptop went crazy in 2004!!! Even though I manually deleted the virus, it kept leaving open back doors and staying on my computer! It's not fair that these hackers find software flaws and exploit them faster than commercial software can be fixed! No wonder hackers end up working for top security-related jobs.
You can view the full article by clicking the link below:
VIRUS GANG WARFARE SPILLS ONTO THE NET
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