Reply To: OCU C)ISSO C Discussion Lesson 17
Think of the movie The Matrix, in essence it’s about group of hackers that are attempting to take down a global power facility, their motive is that they find that this facility is very unethical in they way they treat their employees so they are attempting to entirely close the facility using their hacking skills.
The means is that they find a weakness in this facilities cybersecurity setup in the form of a glitch which they exploit in order to gain more access and take more and more control of the computer systems.
This attack could have been prevented or stopped by simply patching this glitched application, proper system testing may have also aided in a stronger security setup. In not patching this glitch the facility provided theses hackers the opportunity to breach their systems.