Everyone Can Hack

Cyberspace not as safe as you're expecting. Thus we must always be very careful when we're sharing our personal information on the net. That's why some people are so damn afraid to do an online transaction - the potential of being hacked.

A Malaysian hacked into the high security computer networks of the United States’ Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and the Pentagon’s security contractor. Extremely outstanding right?

Cyber crimes are evolving. A lay person can now have a go at hacking with the advent of “attack tool kits” sold in the underground economy servers.

MALAYSIAN Lin Mun Poo did more than get himself arrested when he allegedly hacked into the high security computer networks of the United States’ Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and the Pentagon’s security contractor.

He put Malaysia on the map of “super hackers”, on par with those from China and Russia, raising concerns from US security and intelligence officials.

“How did a hacker in Malaysia manage to penetrate a computer network operated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland?” mused MSNBC.com, the website of the giant US cable news network NBC, when the news broke.

“To have the skills to break into highly sensitive systems like that is an impressive level of criminal activity,” MSNBC.com quoted Kurt Baumgartner of Kaspersky Lab, a computer security firm, as saying.

The Star Online. Click here to read full article.

So fellas. Beware .. Always beware on the net. Danger is everywhere.