NATS 1700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Computer Worm, Computer Network, Malware
30 Jan 2017
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Hacker was an explorer, a risk taker, someone who was trying to make a system do something it had never done before. In 1959, some of the hackers shifted their attention from model trains to electronic computers. The term hacker came to mean a person who delights in having intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers, and networks in particular . May consume a little cpu time and some disk space. They may destroy valuable data stored in your computer"s file system. They may use your computer as a depositary for stolen credit card information, a web server dishing out pornographic images, or a launch pad for spam or a denial of service attack on a corporate or government server. Represent one way in which malicious code can get into a computer. A piece of self replicating code embedded within another program called the host.
