A man types on a computer keyboard in Warsaw in this February 28, 2013 illustration. (Photo : Reuters)
The quick change in the nature of the World Wide Web makes it more prone to cyber attacks. More and more people capable of hacking are growing each year.
Cyber Security experts are getting worried that occurrences like the hacking of IT systems of British Airways, Rutgers University, Slack, and GitHub will become a common incident in the future.
According to experts, the attack made by some hackers from China on the coding alliance website GitHub, a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) commenced on Thursday. On Friday afternoon the systems of Rutgers University received a similar hack attack which was found to be linked to Ukraine and China, Empire State Tribune reported.
The experts' evaluation resulted to 97 percent of firms' database and systems are being hacked these days. Companies are very much worried as the Internet security declines.
All businesses use a customer database system which stores confidential data about a particular person. Once the database gets linked into the internet, it becomes vulnerable and faced with insecurity. Cyber-attack threat starts to intensify when this happens since the data files are then stored into the "cloud."
According to Kevin Villanueva, a Senior Manager and leader of the Moss Adams IT Security and Infrastructure Practice, explained that internet hackers normally think one step ahead of the companies' internet security, according to North Bay Business Journal.
"Attacks vary in the level of sophistication," he said "They're not only trying to hack into the network using traditional hacker tools, but incorporating social engineering, preying on individuals' desire to help out another. It was a multi-pronged attack," he added.
Most of the hacking incidents that happened in the past are known to have no connection with each other. The cyber-attack on British Airways is not connected to that hack made to the chat site Slack and Uber.
Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab Patrick Nielsen disclosed that as far as they know, there are no links between these mentioned hack attacks.
