How To Protect Yourself From The Increasing Risk Of Cyber Attacks

In the Internet world with ever increasing technology and capabilities, it is becoming more and more difficult to discern between previously obvious and clear boundaries. Internet sites span boundaries between not only countries but sometimes laws and complicated ethics. It’s one thing for a country to attack another country with physical force, but what about a cyber attack? This is a growing concern not only for businesses, but for certain aspects of National Security.

This was recently made painfully obvious by a so called “cyber attack,” by the concentrated efforts of a group of Koreans, angry at some comments made on the popular Japanese web site “2 Channel,” regarding figure skater Kim Yu Na. The Japanese figure skater, Mao Asada, received the silver medal, while Korean Kim won the gold. 2 Channel is a popular forum based web site in Japan. Due to the anonymity of the Internet, it is not uncommon to find racially motivated and nationalistic diatribes by some users.

The trouble began when some anonymous posters on the Japanese web site “2 Channel” made some statements alluding to Kim winning her gold medal through bribery rather than skill. The Koreans didn’t take this insult to their national hero lying down, and launched a counter attack on the Japanese web site. A special Internet group was formed specifically to launch the “attack.”

As reported on Japantoday.com, a widely read source of news in Japan, up to 10,000 South Korean Internet users simultaneously posted messages on the web site, overloading it with traffic and shutting it down. The question is, did they break any laws? Should this be considered International terrorism? What if they had launched their cyber attack on a website with more significance than an opinion forum?

With the Internet increasing it’s size and technology on a daily basis, the possibility of any cyber attack is increasing as well. In another recent case, a highly skilled Internet user hacked into the computer which controlled a large video billboard in Moscow. When traffic was heaviest, the billboard suddenly started showing adult movies, which caused a massive traffic jam, and at least one heart attack.

As technology advances, so will holes in the system that can be exploited for financial gain, political motives, or just for fun. On a personal level, it’s important to keep this in mind when surfing the Internet, either for work or for pleasure.

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