Hackers and the web

So we all know that hackers try to do many things while using a PC. Many of those things though can be harmless at time can also pose as very dangerous. It's no big surprise these days to hear of hackers doing this or that but to what extent will they reach? In an article I read recently which is provided on this(link) and hosted on "InfoWorld" shows the story of some hackers injecting well known and supposedly trusted websites with malicious code that redirect users to web pages where they try to install fake spy ware programs or inject trojan horse programs into the users PC. By using the Google database and these websites, the hackers use the search queries so that unsuspecting users will find these links and in hopes to click and access the material behind that hyper link. Thus falling for the trap that was set. To what extent could these people be thinking? I can't seem to understand what goes through the mind of someone who simply wants to give others a hard time and inconvenience them. A lot must go through the mind of the individual that decides they want to use the internet in a way to benefit their own gains or to pet their ego. Listed in the article it was noted of some major websites that were hit with this type of hacking. Among those was walmart.com, usatoday.com and target.com but it is estimated that many more websites have already fallen prey to this type of hacking. The only advice they can give to website operators is to search their query functions regularly and eliminate the presence of this malicious html code in the search results.

All credit of this article goes to InfoWorld and the author.

CIA-wikia

In a report from TIMESONLINE (link) the CIA has enlisted the help of google in a project to bring comprehensive information required by spies and other intelligence agencies to bring together data on suspects, targets and other misc. information that is related to the government. Hoping to use the servers that was bought from google and using their search technology they hope to imploy a type of wiki-encyclopedia type of server that agents and others within the government can contribute their information and resources to keep information current and updated. Intellipedia as it is now known will have different levels of security depending on the user's clearance level ranging from top secret, secret, sensitive etc.

To create such a server with an extreme amount of information about terrorists, criminals and other classified information seems like a good idea on paper. But one must wonder about the imposed risk of having such vital national security information accessible over the internet. Now don't get me wrong I am sure one must pass a lot security to be able to access the server but has that really stopped hackers from trying at the very least? I would think now, we should all know by now that code is not perfect and there is no such thing as the perfect system or else everyone would be running an OS that is bug free and hackers would be non-existent because there would be nothing to exploit. So I could only stress the importance of keeping such information out of the reach of those who could use it against us. One can only wonder what type measures these agencies that are in control of the server plan to do to keep such important national security information out of the hands of those no entitled to using it.

All credit of the article goes to TIMESONLINE and the author of the article.