Hacking and Prevention

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There are many benefits to having a Firewall. The first and most important is that it protects you and your files from being hacked. This is the most important especially for very big companies. Those companies could be on the verge of making a new phone for instance and they don’t have a Firewall to protect there findings. Some hackers could send in a Trojan to either destroy or to steal the research and use it for another company. But if that phone making business had a very good business grade Firewall they would have been able to prevent that from happening. The Firewall is especially good at prevent hackers as well as slowing there process down dramatically. Some of today’s Firewalls actually lay random code into the actual code so that the Hacker actually has to go in and delete all the false code to actually start applying their own, and this is still all before they get to the firewall.

Some might say that there are better ways to prevent hacking. But out of all of those ways the Firewall is still a bear essential to make all of the other ways work to your advantage. The government has even gone so far as to make a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The CFAA “makes it a federal crime for a person to intentionally access a computer without authorization or to exceed authorized access and thereby obtain information from any protected computer” (Anderson, 2013). That is why it is also good to have a Firewall. If your computer is protected in any way this act makes it a Federal crime for someone to hack into your computer to steal information.

Looking at hacking and all of the things a hacker could do there are many ways they could hurt, steal, and destroy information, such as create a Trojan, DDoS, open WI-FI, and also using Ads to penetrate your system. This has become a major problem which has promoted ways to defend against hacking. There are simple ways such as turning of your computer, changing passwords, but by far the most effective way to prevent hackers is the Firewall. Not only does it slow them down, as well as stop them in their tracks, the government has made it a federal offense to do so.

Work Cited

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