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Russian Hackers Attacked U.S. Airports Websites

Several U.S. airport websites were temporarily taken down due to the attack of pro-Russian hackers last Monday. According to Andrew Gobeil, spokesman for Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, on Monday morning, they noticed that the external website was down and quickly ordered their IT and security people to investigate the said attack. He also said that the attack did not impact the airport's operations.      The pro-Russian hacker group known as "Killnet" used a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to take down the said websites temporarily. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a malicious attempt where the attacker's goal is to disrupt the regular traffic of a server, service, or network. This was done by sending many requests to the target, which overloaded resources and made them unavailable.      According to some reports, the attack launched by the Killnet wasn't intended to steal information or compromise the internal system...

All About The Good Hacking

     To the eyes of many people, hacking is an illegal way of getting access to unauthorized systems or computers. But little did they know hacking is much more something than they think it is. According to Anina Ot (2021), a freelance technology and internet security writer at MakeUseOf, hacking should always be on the mind of every internet user. It is not because they literally need to be a hacker, but because the internet nowadays is a dangerous place for everyone where hacking exist.      Hacking is a process of getting access to computer systems, devices, or networks, with or without permission from their owner. Since the very beginning, hacking has been considered illegal. If we try to find any news about hacking, we will always find information about the wrong side of hacking, where hackers illegally access a system, account, and many more. With all this news around the internet, we can’t find many information about how hacking, specifically ethica...