How to Protect Your Computers, Networks From Anonymous Israel Cyber Attack
Threats have been made against the people of Israel for thousands of years. The latest threat now comes from a less macho, publicity seeking Internet group called Anonymous. Anonymous says that on April 7, 2013 it will “erase Israel from the Internet.”
It ain’t gonna happen. Not today, not April 7 and not next year.
“OpIsrael,” which is being organized by anti-Zionist hackers, are said to be targeting the 100 largest Websites in Israel, including banks, credit card companies and communications firms. The cyber attacks are to take place hours before Israel begins to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day. But it will fail big time.
Hacking a computer is not rocket science. It’s not some guy at a keyboard from NCIS or another Hollywood production typing at 90 mph and closing the world down. Here we will explain in simple terms how hacking works and how you can prevent your system from being attacked.
First, the hacker has to find you. Now that he has your Website he will look up its source on the Internet using hundreds of Websites that provide that information. It’s called a “Who Is” database and you simply perform a search on that database as you would search Google for wine or the local weather report. The Who Is database will return what is called an IP address and a physical location. So your first line of defense is to make sure that your Internet information remains private. That is your domain name details. You know the part that say www.hereiam.com. You want to make sure that you have all information from your www.hereiam.com listed as private by the people who you bought your Internet domain name from.
This is door number one. If you haven’t done that the hacker will try to access your information by getting into your Website by guessing and playing with a number of common passwords. When was the last time you changed your password? Does it have a combination of upper case, lower case letters, symbols and numbers in it?
OK, now let’s say that the hacker gets inside your Website - can he now turn the lights off in your neighborhood?
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