Hackers are no longer limiting themselves to getting into personal computers and stealing identities, now they are targeting big corporations.
Sunday, hackers may have been responsible for Crayola's Facebook page turning into a place strictly for adults with crude cartoons, inappropriate pictures and posts.
Assistant Professor at Lehigh University Gang Tan said "It's clear that every year hackers gain new abilities and they learn more about how to hack computer systems."
Tan is working on research that could cut down on companies getting hacked.
Lehigh University, along with three others, received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make software systems more secure.
The group is working to automatically detect malicious activity in software.
Currently defenses like anti-virus software systems scan for signatures or bad things inside of software, but this research will not just scan, it will monitor suspicious behavior and keep track of it.
Tan said, "The game now is trying to add multiple layers of defense to a system to try to make hackers life a little bit harder."
Tan said the first line of defense for businesses is to create a network firewall.
"It's really just a device that sits between the Internet and the businesses internal network and inspects all of the traffic," said Tan.
He also said pay attention to updates.
"Some of them are just to add new features to a piece of software, but a lot of them now a days are for security purposes," said Tan.
Tan said we should learn from what happened at Crayola and keep working on ways to prevent hackers from striking again.
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