In the hacker's peskase
The Internet has changed the world. The electronic market is already a reality. Contracts, businesses, purchases and sales, information remittances, etc. are made through the Internet. Along with becoming a staple for the developed society, it is an ideal road for computer viruses, wide and comfortable. According
to the International Association of Computer Security, 100% of companies have suffered some type of attack in the last year. To talk about all this, today we have with us Urko Zurutuza, researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea. (You are
welcome)
As we said, today we are going to talk about the Internet and computer threats, and behind them, some people who are hidden: hackers. At Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Urko’s team is investigating the origin and behaviour of hackers and these threats. Before we start talking, we will see in a short video what they are doing.
Although the history of viruses dates back half a century, the first viruses, that is, programs that have the ability to reproduce and infect other computers or disks, are about 20 years old. The first viruses were infected by floppy disks, while the current ones benefit from the Internet. In addition to the virus, there are numerous computer threats on the Internet: self-propagating programs known as worms or ziza, spam that cause chaos in email, systems dedicated to the search for information... and, behind all of them, hackers, who are getting rich.
At Mondragon Unibertsitatea, a project is underway to investigate the origin and behaviour of hackers and computer threats. They are based on a strategy called honeypot or honey pot, which is the strategy of mooring honey pots that hunters place to attract bears. Next to the real server of a company, they put another seemingly real but really false one. These fake systems often suffer from intentional security flaws, making them more likely to be attacked. When the attack occurs, the server of Mondragon Unibertsitatea receives information through the network and records it. All this information is then analyzed.
The project, baptized as Euskalert, has involved eight large companies from the Basque Country in different areas for the last two years. The university itself, of course, is in the group and, among other things, this house, the EITB, is also.
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