Blackhats (Bad intention hackers) use various penetration methods to affect our daily lives, I.e. CardSystems Attack is the most dangerous and can affect a wide range of consumers, I.e. Credit card payment processing company got compromised back in June, 2005.
Leading to an SQL injection attack. The attack compromised 263,000 Credit card numbers stolen from one database, this is nothing comparing to what’s been going on on deep web, black hats trade unencrypted credit card numbers for cryptocurrency before you ever heard of cryptocurrency In 2005 Alone 43 million Credit card numbers exposed Not to mention April, 2008 SQL vulnerability that led to Hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked, Windows/UNIX Zombie Armies are resources black hats mine cryptocurrency using various types of botnets For example, Most spam emails that are flooding your inbox on daily basis comes from Festi, Zeus and Chameleon.
This can cause great damage to mail servers, organizations can be halted if a malicious attack prevails. Anti-spam/SQL prevention methods and techniques are available but you can never stop a Zombie effectively: however there are prevention protocols and methods that TECHOFFICE implemented to make sure your business stays online 24/7/365.
By Abdullah Alsaqer,
Chief Operating Officer & IT Architecture Leader
