Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: In a brave new age of global connectivity and e-commerce, interconnections via networks have heightened, creating for both individuals and organizations, a state of complete dependence upon vulnerable systems for storage and transfer of information. Never before, have so many people had power in their own hands. The power to deface websites, access personal mail accounts, and worse more the potential to bring down entire governments, and financial corporation's through openly documented software codes.