January 17, 2008

The unstoppable pirates

Despite what we are told about online security, there is a growing amount of people that feel it is a direct competition that every time some security measure is put in place by an organisation that is their signal to attack and try to crack it.

Take media defender for instance, they are used by the media industry to protect their property from hackers and illegal file sharers, but from his families basement Ethan Noble found the old family computer and began to play around and soon found his way into many of the world largest media companies.

From his exploits have just gone on and on, on a regular basis he would get into the media defender servers and could actually read anything on any computer within the company all of the company information, including director’s salaries and contact details. So are the pirates stoppable or not?

Source [Portfolio]