This video was about a cybercrime expert named Mikko Hypponen who talks about three major online attacks that everyday people are victim to. Those three types of attacks include online criminals who hack for their own benefit for money, hackers doing it for protests, and the government. He even mentioned about how back when there were typewriters, nothing of this sort of hacking would happen but now you can hardly trust any safety on computers and the internet because of all those people or groups of people who hack for only their own benefits.
This video relates to Information Technology because hacking is something which is known for happening on computers and when you put personal things on the internet such as your credit card number, it can be taken by any of those three attackers. Also, alot of people use the computer or internet for daily things so they are not aware that whatever they put on it, it is dangerous.
Two things that I found interesting were that alot of people hack for their own advantage which is money because I never actually thought that people could get alot of money from taking other peoples personal things that were put on the internet. Also, I never knew people online attack as a protest or to prove a point. I guess that is a very useful way to show someone their opinions because since alot of people go on the internet, they might stumble upon someone who probably believes in what they do too.
Link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_online_attack.html
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