Hack-X-Crypt by Ujjwal Sahay - HTML preview

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You might be thinking that hackers don’t care about your computer, but they do. Hackers want access to your system for many different reasons. Remember, once a hacker breaks in and plants a Trojan, the door is open for anyone to return. The hackers know this and are making money off from it They know it’s easy to hide and very difficult to track them back once they own your Pc.

Overall, the Internet is an easy place to hide. compromised computers around the world have helped to make hiding simple. It is easy to find the last IP address from where an attack was launched, but hackers hop from many unsecured systems to hide their location before they launch attacks.

IP address is a unique address that identifies where a computer is connected to the Internet Every computer, even yours if you’re using broadband access, has an Internet protocol {IP} address.

Over the past four years, most cyber-attacks have been launched from computers within the INDIA However, this doesn’t mean that systems in the INDIA are the original source of the attack. A hacker in Pakistan could actually use your computer to launch a denial of service {DOS} attack. To the entire world, it might even look as if you started the attack because the hacker has hidden his tracks so that only the last ͞hop can be traced.