Forensics

Jonathan James a 15-year-old boy from Florida hacks into the systems of NASA and then Pentagon causing a complete shutdown of their systems for 21 days.  At 15 years old, James had enough of hacking his school's system and put forth greater hacking objectives. Between June 23, 1999, and October 27, 1999, he committed a progression of hacking into different networks and systems, thus hacking into the system of NASA and the Pentagon for fun which changed his life for worst. How did Jonathan James hack into NASA and what are the losses faced by NASA? In 1999, Jonathan, a 15-year-old boy who used to operate on the internet through the name ‘c0mrade’ intrudes into the system of one of the most secure agencies in the world called ‘NASA’, making himself fall in the list of ‘the most famous hackers of all time’. The reason or motive behind the attack was nothing. He intruded into the system of NASA for fun. In late August 1999, Jonathan breached other systems of some organizations which in...

  What are Cyber Attacks? Cyberattacks are the attempts that are put on by a hacker (anonymous personality) to intrude or have access to a system of more than one device or inside a network without the knowledge of the host. Basically, the hackers try to get unauthorized access to the system to destroy, disrupt and manipulate data within the system. Why do Cyber attacks happen? The people or groups involved in the creation of a cyberattack are known as cyber criminals. Usually, they do this for their benefit. Their main target has always been big businesses and tech hubs. They try to get access to the customer’s credit card details or other sensitive information by getting into the system and using their identity to steal goods and also for financial gains. Types of Cyber Attacks Mainly Cyberattacks are of 2 types. Those are Web Based attacks and System Based attacks. Web-Based Attacks : These attacks are those attacks that occur on a website or web application. The...