MIDTERM

During MIDTERM period our lessons are about hackers, viruses and computer crimes.

HACKERS- are those who enjoys learning programming languages and computer systems and can often be considered an expert.

CRACKERS- are those who gain unauthorized access to computer systems and steals data.

There are 8 kinds of hackers according to their hats.

*WHITE Hat

*BLACK Hat

*RED Hat

*GREY Hat

*BLUE Hat

*GREEN Hat

*the GHOST Hacker

*the SCRIPT KIDDIE

VIRUSES

There were students assigned to report this and from their report there were so many viruses. Below are some of the viruses that we discussed.

BRAIN VIRUS -- the first computer virus made by the two Pakistani brothers  Amjad and Basit Farooq Alvi. It only affects the boot records.

TROJAN HORSE -- it is used by hackers to copy data from secure files or record information about security measures ;exploit the weakness of a system.

WORMS -- make your system slower.

And lastly we tackle COMPUTER CRIME. I learned that downloading movies, music...etc.  in the internet for free is a violation of copyright laws.