So my question that I am trying to narrow down is, how are we being hacked, and how is it still continuing?
Are we safe, should we go off the grid? Can we even go off the grid? Is it possible that a person born today; could ever actually live off the grid?
As I continued to follow up on the idea of who is hacking and how, I came across a few articles. One is an excerpt from the Bank of England Financial Stability Report. The report is a synopsis of everything that has an effect on the financial health of the Bank. The report is from November 2013 and discusses what the bank has to worry about outside of inflation and interest rates, “The BoE said: “Cyber attack has continued to threaten to disrupt the financial system. In the past six months, several UK banks and financial market infrastructures have experienced cyber attacks, some of which have disrupted services”,(Cyber). Banks understand cyber attacks are a concern, but this is a product and not the beginning.
I am trying to understand how, we get to the point that banks are no longer just concerned with inflation and interest rates, how is cyber security one of their main focuses. I found a book titled, Cyber Forensics: From Data to Digital Evidence, the book discusses the history of code, amongst other things and explains how a system had to be agreed to which allowed for communication by everyone in a standardized way. This code is called binary, “The representation of complex language patterns for digital communications began with the primary building blocks”, (Marcela 284).
I am at the beginning binary and the end, where we are all concerned about cyber attacks but the middle is what is missing. What happened, to allow hackers to infiltrate our safety and security zone. How did it happen and why?
Countries of the world have been attacking each other in any way possible, since th beginning of “countries”. Contrary to popular belief, cyber warfare started way before the 1990s. According to the authors of American Cyber Insecurity: The growing danger of cyber attacks, cyber attacks were a concern of the United States Government in the 1970s. As more of the government became connected through computers, more warnings occurred that our government was becoming vulnerable. In the 1990s, the truth of the vulnerability was revealed when “cyber attacks for fun”, were created and released, just to see what “they would do”(Strunk 7-10). While other countries were trying to figure out how to get into our computers, at home we had people doing it for fun. This fun, helped expose how vulnerable we were as a country.
Now I have the history, middle, and present day. Where does this put me? I am not sure, yet. I haven’t narrowed down my idea completely, but I do have quite a bit of research I have already conducted.
Will it ever be safe to be on the Internet, and in reality, does it matter?
Is this my question? Maybe.
Clara
Bibliography
Cyber attacks. (2013, Nov 29). Financial Times
Marcella, A. J., & Guillossou, F. (2012). Wiley Corporate F&a, Volume 587: Cyber Forensics : From Data to Digital Evidence. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons.
Strunk, D., Colin, S., Chris, B., & Desmond, L. (2014). American Cyber Insecurity: The growing danger of cyber attacks.
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