Offensive weapons (virusses/worms/hackers)

Description

People will always find new ways to exploit certain systems. The current technological weapons are:

* Distrubuted Denial of Service Attacks
* Virusses
* Trojan Horses
* Malware
* Hackers

These weapons can be used to obtain access or information from computer systems and are used often.

Enablers

Evolution of software (new algorithms make better virusses)
Expansion of the internet
Carelessness and unawareness of computer-users
Social engineering
Unsecure software

Inhabitors

Growing awareness of the weapons
Software Architecture more secure
Evolution of defense mechanisms
Cyberlaws?

Paradigms

Owners of botnets recieve money to send spam and DDoS targets. It's getting more organized and commercial. needs more explanation