A Brief History of Malware and Cybercrime
12 notable developments in three decades of online threats, with notes on responses.
When it began: The first high-profile computer intrustion occurred in 1983, when a group of young Milwaukee hackers known by their area code (the 414's) broke into computer systems at institutions ranging from the Los Alamos Laboratories to Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before being arrested after an FBI investigation, The New York Times reported.
What it is: Unathorized access to a computer system, whether it be manual, such as using a stolen password, or automated, in which computer coders develop software enabling them to bypass network security protection and gain access to computer systems via the Internet.
Response: Multi-factor authentication; intrusion detection software; firewalls; data encryption; security risk training for computer users.
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