Common sense and Hacking...

When it comes to common sense in this world, it is earned not given. Now when you add lack of common sense to a computer hacker you gain a potent combination of choice words I rather not share. I read this article around the net that involves some hackers, google and this program developed by hackers called Goolag. This program's function is simple, the user takes the program and runs it. It runs a few queries through Google searching for credit card information and other personal data owned by others where it then presents it to the user of this Goolag program. Scary? Yes it is. To think that a simple program could be used to search through google's database and query out sensitive information with little to know work involved.

Don't get me wrong though hackers have indeed been using Google as a means to hack information from unsuspecting individuals pretty much from its inception. But this task was manual and took time and experience to even begin to know where to look and what to look for. But with this new automated program designed to find the same mentioned data off Google can nearly cut the time in half which can allow hackers and thieves to steal your sensitive information quite easily. This worries many companies and the authorities on how this program can affect people who make many purchases over the Internet or who participate in online banking.

There is however a light of hope in this dark cloud however. Experts say that this program will do little damage if any at all if websites that store the sensitive information practice good networking and keep their security checks in place. As long as the website has good protection then this program will do little in breeching your identity. So the key is for companies to keep their websites more secure and keep private information off of publically accessible websites.

As a strong user of the internet I am always concerned about hackers stealing my information, and I hope that website operators would do everything in their ability to keep everything safe and confidential. This article was interesting to read because it really taught me that I need to be careful with what kind of websites I use and make their that they practice good network security before I do business with them.

Link to where I read this short article hosted on G4Tv's website:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/683199/
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