s from cyber space.In 1991, the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University, also known as C.E.R.T., reported more than 500 incidents of computer account attacks. Five years later, Carnegie Mellon University would report 2,500 incidents of such attacks. Frightening enough, University of Delaware faced its first experience of cyber crime with nearly 2,000 students’ and professors’ passwords were compromised and had to be changed. This matter was reported to C.E.R.T. security specialists and it was later discovered these attacks were part of a larger pool of experienced online vandals, which involved other computers around the country terrorizing databases and fragile unsecured networked computer systems. Now, not only the schools, banks, businesses, and the military are feeling this terror, but also the federal agencies and local police departments are experiencing the work of computer attacks. Awareness grew of a new form of crime striking the nervous system of courts and the criminal justice sector. A push for secure software protection became the solution for most law enforcement agencies, corporations, and the government. Firewall programs were developed to protect server Internet protocol or “i.p.” numbers to secure the integrity of data. Unfortunately, programs can only protect specific intrusions, but still, there are forms of viruses that exploit systems by transferring codes through wireless, phone, and fiber optic cable connections. For example, e-mail acceptance of an effected file can cause an over-depended system to become paralyzed, disabling total access and reconstruction of a network. Usually this form of an attack is produced with the intention to break a system, test, or challenge in search of flaws in the application or system by a hacker. Very knowledgeable computer engineers or skilled users write programs like viruses or exploit codes. We can simply call them hackers becau...
