Today a very interesting article was released on Security
Week. Interestingly enough, a 27 year old female hacker was arrested for using
malicious software to take over people’s computers and spy on them. (AFP, 2015) For me, I feel like
it’s interesting to see a female similar to me doing these types of acts. I
feel like you typically see males involved in hacking attempts. Obviously, this
is not the case. More interestingly, this female is actually, “believed to be at
the origin of a botnet, i.e. a group of computers infected by a virus and remotely
controlled by a hacker” (AFP, 2015) . This seems very
interesting to me.
According to the article she is from
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Quebec and this is where she would launch all of her
attacks. (AFP, 2015) So, what exactly was
she able to do through a webcam? Well, “The woman allegedly eavesdropped on
private conversations and communicated with victims through the speakers of
their infected computers” (AFP, 2015) . This act seems a
little bizarre. It seems like she was just really board and maybe got some type
of excitement in harassing these people through their computers. “Police said
she also ‘frightened her victims,’ including children, by taking over control
of their computers and logging on to extreme pornography websites” (AFP, 2015) .
For
me, this is where you really just cross the line. I mean why anyone would
purposely expose little children to pornography in any sense just makes absolutely
no sense. This really upsets me. I hate to see children exposed to
inappropriate materials! I don’t even want to be exposed to them! It’s really
unfair for someone to do this to innocent little kids. I think one of the most
complicated parts of Information Security is trying to understand these
attackers. Some of their behaviors just make no sense. You aren’t getting any
monetary compensation for what you are doing, so why are you interested in
doing what you are doing? The human behavior aspects really come into play in
Information Security and I believe human behavior is a critical factor in
understanding crime and criminal behaviors. Information Security is a very
interesting area to be a part of.
References
AFP. (2015, April 30). Canadian Hacker Arrested for Spying Through Webcams. Retrieved
April 30, 2015, from Security Week:
http://www.securityweek.com/canadian-hacker-arrested-spying-through-webcams
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