Defeating the Hackers
Streaming Video - 2013
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This film explores the murky and fast-paced world of hackers out to steal money and identities and wreak havoc with people's online lives, and the scientists who are joining forces to help defeat them. Horizon meets the two men who uncovered the world's first cyber weapon, the pioneers of what is called ultra paranoid computing, and the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines
Global Internet Security Threats (1:52)
Internet Identity Theft (6:32)
Stuxnet Virus (7:00)
Pioneering Cyber Weaponry (1:58)
RSA Algorithm System (5:19)
Quantum Mechanics (2:10)
Quantum Computer (4:37)
Quantum Cryptography (5:51)
Ultra Paranoid Computing (2:51)
Corticol Cryptography (3:34)
Human Weakness in Internet Security (4:18)
Rogue Virus Threat (2:31)
Credits: Defeating the Hackers (0:43)
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PUBLISHED
BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2013
Year Published: 2013
Format: Streaming Video
SUBJECTS
Computer crimes
Computer security
Information society
Information technology
Social aspects
Terrorism