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The Prague Post - Opinion - Virtual hostage Cyber terrorism and politically motivated computer crime are a big concern for the real world Our dependence on the Internet and technology demands we ask ourselves a question: What would be the impact on our lives if that technology was disrupted? Many people don't realize the true scope of the information revolution that has taken place in the past two decades. When we think about our personal reliance on technology, we usually picture access to our Facebook accounts, e-mail and maybe online banking. We often overlook how dependent basic functions of society and government are on these same technologies. Examples include public transportation, the generation and distribution of electrical power and police communications, to name a few. Without these types of services, access to our personal e-mail or Twitter would be the least of our problems. The risk is real for a malicious and intentional disruption of basic infrastructure bu...

Computer hackers breached the local authority bank accounts in November 2008 and redirected 34.000 dollars in taxpayer money to Russia in an elaborate computer hacking scheme. The scheme,involved hacking into the local authority computers to steal passwords to withdraw cash through wire transfers, there were four illegal transfers found during a 10-day period. The money was wired to banks in Florida and Georgia in the United States and at least one transfer was traced to St. Petersburg, Russia. That has law enforcement convinced that Russian organized crime is involved. Hackers used a virus known as a \”sniffer\” to snag the password and security information from the computer system, that type of virus is also called a key-stroke logger. The hacking was first discovered on Nov. 14 by the town Treasurer when he discovered the bogus transfers when he went to pay the local authorities bills for that week and didn\’t have enough money. Bank officials told him that he had authorized...