When I experienced
the Trojan horse at the first time, I was scare to death. What is Trojan horse? Did it destroy my
computer? Since then, I have known a word, hacking. In computer science field, “hack
means gain unauthorized access to computer data or use a computer or other
technological device or system in order to gain unauthorized access to data
held by another person or organization.” ( Encarta Dictionary) Actually, since then I started to be
interested in computer programming. I knew from an article that all the hackers
are the experts in the computer field. Although
all the hackers are smart and talented, they are in the wrong direction.
Hacking not only is an issue which destroys
the information of computer users but also harms the country’s security. Weeks ago, the US government was shutdown. The
US government worried about the attacks from hackers and asked the computer professional
to defend the hacking from the hackers and fight back.
Nowadays,
computer is widely used. People like to use computer to keep their personal information.
That is the reason why hackers make various hacking program to try to invade
the computer users’ data. Finding ways
to protect against hacking is crucial to learn for the computer users.
There are
some things people can do to protect computers. I found the article in
AsianCatalyst.org. I think some advices are very useful and I want to share with
you.
1, Using a
firewall all the time is a very basic rule. Update the firewall often and never
close it. It is the first step and easiest way to protect the computer.
2, Configure
your computer to go to sleep after a short period of inactivity and require a
password to wake up.
3, Whenever
a new major revision of an operating system comes out (e.g. Vista, Windows 7,
Mac OS 10.6), consider "clean" installing it, rather than installing
it on top of your existing setup.
4,
Never use an account with administrator privileges for ordinary work,
particularly email or online activities such as web surfing.
Except the first, other advices are some kind professional,
but all these are very useful for against hacking.
Hi,Yibei,
ReplyDeleteThis post clearly shows your points about hacking. You use a well-known hacking: Trojan Horse virus to begin your article. The above example really arouses my interesting. Just like you said, hacking is a smart behavior. Actually, I admire all hackers. They have super programming ability. The hackers community is full of mysterious to me. As a student on computer science, I recurrent dream that I have turned into a Hacker. All the programming assignments can be broken by me in minutes. I wish, I hope that my dream will come true or at least I have a hacker friend. Hah!
Your article give me much information about hacking and hackers. It will be better if you can tell people some hackers are heroes who are helping to build internet world.
In sum, it is a good post. I like it.