Two days ago, I heard about the news of three or four big famous companies that were raided by hackers. I was floored by the news. I took the news from a narrow-angle. My money in the bank. What will happen if they attack the bank? The supply of data stealing products and services is growing. Is the internet not safe anymore? I have heard about some banks in the US or the UK. They were many fraud attempts or criminal acts on them. They blocked many attempts of hackers attack. I do not have much money in the bank but it gives a lot of pain. The right is hard. Even if you have one dollar in your account. I do not have any idea how these cybercriminals get access to those accounts. The hackers are very adept at revising their styles or methods to evade any detection.
My brother, engineer Khalid is a computer programmer. He always tells me about their methods and it is not easy to capture them. According to my brother, those intruders have ways to get to your system. When I asked him what would happen to my money if any cyber attempt occurred. He smiled. He hasn't had much to smile about lately. The corners of his mouth turned up to show amusement, then he continued, "most of those people are very smart and genius. The matter is not about your money or my money. It's about countries and governments. Hackers tried to sneak onto the system of the ministries of defense or foreign affairs. Of course, governments cannot do this alone. I mean to defend themselves from those attackers."
To tell you the truth, I was worried from the growing of the malicious and wicked attempts of those criminals.
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Hello Mr. Dara,
I feel wondering about your sentence " Is the internet not safe anymore?".. I wonder when ever internet has been safe? in fact, internet has never been safe.. I believe that those assaults are very real..
Don't go far, I will tell you the story which happened to my company very recently..
Few weeks ago, my company contacted another company in UAE to buy some materials for our projects... after few communications between the two companies, a (seemed to be) hacker stole the account of the other company.. they started sending us messages from his email, and blocked him from seeing our replies... we had never ever experienced such a thing. so we never doubted it at all.. after agreeing about the materials and the costs, we sent them a down payment.. believe me it was very shocking to know after some time that the owner of the other company was totally not aware of what was going on.. we thought that he was late about arranging our materials after he received the payment, so we called him to know about the materials. Both of us was in a real shock.. after some processes, he knew that he was stolen.. and guess what.. our down payment was gone with the wind!!!
Khop khon Jubma! Thanks for your short and nice comment! Could I be one of your friends?
Dear Lara, sorry, I forgot to ask you to add me to the list of your friends. Thanks again for your short and meaningful comment on cyber assault!
Asante sana Molemane! I am afraid, yes. It happened and that what is making me uncertain and frightened. I do not have that kind of money, but enough to build a house. I am still depositing. Honestly, the future is sometimes scary. Thanks, Mole. for your nice comment!
Oh thanks dear Dara for posting and sharing,do you mean this happened their in your country?
He hbavgan Harshh! Isli main dara hua. That is the reason of my fear. My money is there. I am saving it for at least two or three years and then I want to build a house. Believe me Harshh, your comment gave me the creeps again. Thanks Harshh!
Very informative one, same as you other blogs dear dara. :))
The last couple of weeks some Indian banks are facing the same issue, some banks assaulted by hackers so they blocked more than 5 million ATM cards. Still not recovered