Access Nation, an episode of Law & orders shows some IT related scenes like “Breaking Passwords”. Breaking passcodes is a form of hacking wherein you’re trying to guess the password by means of Trial and Error. The easiest form of hacking is “Social Engineering”, is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information.
A scene from this episode shows the investigators found that the hacker send a Worm to the computer of the victim allowing him to monitor every move of the victim. Actually worm does not operate online. Worm can only be active through networks. Worm is a program (virus) that moves through a computer system randomly changing or overwriting pieces of data as it moves.
There are a lot of ways to avoid hackers and Viruses. Changing your passcodes frequently will make you avoid hackers, also by making your own words, words that does not exist in the dictionary and also by no telling your passcode to anyone. Viruses can be prevented by means of anti-virus but it will make your computer speed slower, the best thing to do to avoid viruses is to know its nature, viruses are executable file so don’t just run an executable files you don’t know or click any malicious looking files. It would also benefit you if you know your system processes very well.
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