Case Study: The Malignant Virtual Threat: Malware

The Malignant Virtual Threat: Malware
Malware is a danger to our virtual society and appears in a myriad of forms Worms, Viruses, Trojan Horses, Macro viruses, Spyware. More forms of malware are being developed every day known as zero-day attacks since they haven’t been seen before, some of these have the possibility to be a new form of malware and the rest will fit the types previously listed. These high-profile attacks have consumers and companies considering more high-technology defense strategies. There are countless others that don’t want to consider them and they are weak links in virtual security. Some vendors that control programs or features numerous customers use such as: power grid management, shipping software, hospital patient
Currently there are cars that can drive themselves, but even older models of cars that rely in electronic signals to control steering, speed, GPS, and electronic sensors these systems can become compromised even with a driver behind the wheel trying to give the vehicle the opposite command not just new and driverless ones. Moreover, systems capable of easy exploitation are so wide spread Ubisoft managed to create two games in the Watch Dogs series to point this out and one of the games had a promotional stunt of interacting with people in a smart home Ubisoft had control over; part of said stunt was allowing internet viewers to choose how to meddle with the people inside the smart house. The stunt was live streamed on the large video screens in Toronto’s Younge and Dundas Square as well as on YouTube. Crime Watch Daily’s Ana Garcia did a report about the vulnerabilities of insecure networks and they had some virtual security experts come in and test the defenses on one production member’s smart house they were easily able to hack into the home network with permission due to weak security settings. Nevertheless, the security specialists secured the home network of the vulnerabilities like the camera system having a bad password. A technology channel on YouTube called Motherboard has a series called, Phreaked Out it is about technological dangers this kind of reckless networking puts people in. The media is picking up on the dangers; however, no one is bringing out enough provoking arguments to change the minds of those who want to worry about networking everything, but not applying proper up to date security measures to the