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Blog week 3

       Blog Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57280510     Blog 3              Hackers from Russia unleash cyberattacks on government                                              and aid facilities                      Russian hackers attack government/aid facilities spanning 24 countries and 150 organizations. These hackers have stolen sensitive data and information from email accounts. They would send out emails and links within the emails that looked very much real, but in reality, was a scam. Those people who clicked on the email link were attacked by a malicious file that steals data.                         It was figured out that this group of Russian hackers ...

Blog week 2

  Blog Article:  https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/what-is-cybersecurity.html   Blog week 2                        What is cybersecurity and what does it entail? Multiple layers of protection are dispersed across the computers, networks, programs, and data that one wants to keep safe in a good cybersecurity strategy. To establish a successful defense against cyber threats, an organization's people, processes, and technology must all be in accordance with one another.                            People Individuals need to protect themselves from cyber attacks by not giving any leeway and room for hackers to attack  them with simple security principles such as: Creating a password that is strong, watching out for attachments in emails, and always backing up data.                 ...

Blog week 1

  Blog Article: https://intellectualpoint.com/5-reasons-why-cybersecurity-is-important-now-more-than-ever/ Blog 1      Top 5 reasons why cybersecurity is important                   1.) Cyber Affects all people    Cybersecurity is so important, because cyberattacks can occur. If cyberattacks occur it can affect the whole community and state. If hackers can get into the system they can stop the normal day to day activities that people need and use to function as a society. A case that was brought up in the article is a cyberattack that happened in Atlanta where hackers used SamSam Ransomware to attack the city of Atlanta and made them offline for 5 days. This caused a lot of damage to the city and a total cost of 17 million dollars.      2.)  The speed and revolution of technology will cause a spike in cyberattacks     By  the  end  of  2020,   ther...