Sr. No: 1
The original IPv4 was designed for DARPA, a test network that eventually became the internet.
Sr. No: 2
The Panopticlick website https://panopticlick.eff.org/ analyses how well our browser and add-ons protect us against online tracking techniques. It also sees if our system is uniquely configured and thus identifiable uniquely.
Sr. No: 3
Stuxnet was created by the United States and Israel to target Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Program. The computer worm crashed 984 centrifuges at Iranian nuclear power plants between 2008 and 2012, setting back Nuclear weapons production capabilities in Iran by about two years.
Sr. No: 4
The Bitcoin exchange, “Mt. Gox” filed for bankruptcy after $460 million was apparently stolen by hackers due to "weaknesses in their system" and another $27.4 million went missing from its bank accounts.
Sr. No: 5
Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE made a world record in defacement history by hacking 700,000 websites in a single shot.
Sr. No: 6
In 2007, a new fleet of Apache helicopters arrived at an American base in Iraq. Some soldiers took photos of the flight-line and uploaded them to the Internet. The enemy found geotags inside the Exif data of the photos and conducted a mortar attack that destroyed four helicopters.
Sr. No: 7
IPv6 addresses are made up of 128 bits and thus allows 2^128 i.e. 3.4×10^38 addresses. A theoretical maximum of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463, 374,607,431,768,211,456. That’s over 340 undecillion addresses, which is reportedly enough to assign one IP address to every single atom on the surface of the earth!
Sr. No: 8
According to a survey conducted by a global research firm “Ipsos”, India has the highest number of child cyber bullying cases in the world at 32%, amongst children who have access to internet or mobile phones, compared to 15% in US and 11% in Great Britain.
Sr. No: 9
Cyber scams are commonly known as “Nigerian 419” scams as people believe they originate from Nigeria. The “Section 419” of the Nigerian Penal Codes deals with cheating like famous “Section 420” of the Indian Penal Code.
Sr. No: 10
Income Tax Department, Government of India:
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