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Who is Mafiaboy and what crime did he commit?

Michael Calce is born in 1986 also known as Mafiaboy he is a high school student from IIe Bizard, Quebec he is 15 years old he first commit a crime to brought down the websites Yahoo, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, CNN, eBay and he launched a series of highly publicized commercial websites in February 7,2000.

Who is Mafiaboy? What crime did he commit?

How did Mafiaboy performed the attack?

Mafiaboy performed the attack when he first target to brought down the Yahoo! for almost an hour Yahoo! is a multi billionaire web company and the top search engine his goal is to establish dominance for himself and TNT, his cyber group, in the cyber world. Buy.com was shut down in response. Mafiaboy responded to this in turn by bringing down eBay,CNN, and Amazon.

Who is Mafiaboy? What crime did he commit?

Who is Onel de Guzman and what crime did he commit?

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Onel de Guzman is the Filipino student from AMA he is 24 years old who became a suspect for committing a crime the ILoveYou Virus.

Who is Onel de Guzman? What crime did he commit?

How did ILoveYou virus spread throughout the world?

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Onel De Guzman confessed that he may have accidentally spread the virus all over the world. Thesis proposal he had submitted to his college which was rejected because it was unethical.

Who is Onel de Guzman? What crime did he commit?

How much was the damage?

The estimated damage of the ILOVEYOU virus is $10 Billion all over the world.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/94476/online-culture-larceny

Who is the suspect behind hacking the Comelec website in 2016?

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Paul Beting is a 23 years old who finish their study by taking Information Technology he is the suspect behind hacking the COMELEC website in 2016.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/politics/elections/2016/130252-suspected-hacker-comelec-website-nabbed

What is the reason behind hacking the COMELEC website?

The reason behind hacking the COMELEC website is to display the vulnerability of the COMELEC website. Paul Beting said that he leak the data of the COMELEC the Lulz Sec Pilipinas is a well known hacker and the one who leaked the data of COMELEC is no other than the “de asis” then beting breached the COMELEC website.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/03/28/1567196/comelec-website-hacked

What are the possible and most dangerous effects of computer viruses in computer systems and websites?

The possible and most dangerous effect of computer viruses in computer system and website is when they use a unsecured apps that they can download direct to the computer system so that the possible dangerous is when you apply it and they can destroy the computer system in all files they have or the unknown source that they don’t have a licence and they don’t have a good response and also to plug a flash-drive to the common computer and they can use it to own computer system they can corrupt all files into the computer system.

https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/computer-security-threats-computer-viruses

What is the difference between a hacker and a cracker? 

The difference between a hacker and a cracker are Hacker is a person intensely interested in the arcane and recondite working of any computer system or a person who secretly gets access to a computer system in order to get information, cause damage and hacker can plays a sport badly and Cracker is someone is a someone who breaks into someone else’s computer system, often on a network; bypasses passwords or licenses in computer programs; or in other ways intentionally breaches computer security. A cracker can be doing this for profit, maliciously, for some altruistic purpose or cause, or because the challenge is there.

https://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/tip/The-difference-between-hackers-and-crackers

Differentiate computer virus from a worm?

The different between the virus and worm is that the virus can insert a copy of itself into and becoming part of program while worm is can duplicate the function copy of themselves and can cause the same type of damage.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/virus-differences.html

 How can a system or website be protected against computer malware and hacking?

It can protect against computer malware and hacking by secure the computer in using a strong password and Install the
 robust antivirus software package it is the primary component of technological defenses that every personal and business computer system should have protected.

https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/preemptive-safety/what-is-malware-and-how-to-protect-against-it

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