Hacker attacks 2020: top

2020 has become a symbol of global immersion in the Web. All around, from small organizations to the largest enterprises in the world, have switched to the remote mode of work. Defense perimeters became more fragile and incident response times became longer. And cybercriminals could not ignore such a confluence of events. The cyber threat environment was dominated by ransomware viruses attacking schools, hospitals, and private companies. There were also some massive takeovers of social media accounts. So, let’s have a look at the top-5 attacks of 2020.

SolarWinds hack

One of the most devastating attacks of 2020 occurred in the last month of the year – hackers, considered “Russians” in the Western press, compromised the internal systems of SolarWinds, a software maker used by tens of thousands of companies.

Attackers managed to remotely download the software update to 18,000 SolarWinds clients, after which they were able to steal, destroy…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is simultaneously fascinating and scary. We’ve all seen movies of rogue robots driving humanity to despair till someone finds a way to render them powerless. But we need to understand the term “AI takeover” before attempting to answer the above question.

What is an AI takeover?

The term refers to an imaginary situation in which artificial intelligence becomes a dominant force on Earth and establishes control over the human race. For example, AI may take over the work of all employees, resulting in a robot rebellion against humans.

Big names in science and technology, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, have expressed their concerns about a possible AI takeover in the future. They have spoken about the importance of researching AI safety measures to make sure that any super-intelligent robots or computer programs that may be developed in the future remain fully under the control of their creators.

But are we really…

Attila Vágó, web developer, materials and content engineer for eLearning, told Hackernoon how coding differs from programming and why it is becoming more and more popular.

Coding has become part of pop culture. But programming is not. And I will explain why.

Fifteen years ago I was advised to become a programmer because I was an introvert and shy man, and had an analytical mindset and a complete lack of social life, but I only laughed and dismissed such advisers. At that time I was a teenager, and in my adolescence the programmer lived forever in the basement of my parents’ house, was pimply and wore ugly glasses, he never had a girlfriend, but it paid off the fantasies about Princess Leia (and quite often). This lifestyle was not to my liking. In addition, then I already had a girlfriend, and quite beautiful.

Let’s move on for six years: I’m sitting at the Budapest airport reading…

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