Can everything be hacked?

[Des]

Can any website get hacked? I mean haven't companies like Yahoo and Google figured out a way to make their accounts unhackable? If not, why?

[Ash]

Short answer, yes. The reason is that any time security methods, technologies, etc. are increased there's always someone out there looking to break it. This can be "good" hackers that do it just to see if it can be done, or to help identify weaknesses so that they can be resolved or by "bad" hackers that are looking to expose sensitive data for personal gain.

[jegs]

No website is unhackable. If someone wants in bad enough they will get in. It all boils down to patience and being good at writing code.

[David]

It cannot be hacked 24/7 legally without a warrant or court order of some kind. The greater the security so the more difficult it would be for a hacker. Companies like google ought to have knowledge of how to fully protect themselves but they do not have the same status as agencies as they have said themselves. The public probably do not need such protection but only interlectuals and writers and designers etc. It is probable that basic protection, law, and common sense is enough.

[Minister of Truth]

No, bc if they have good human intrusion protection, the hacks will be stopped in the beginning.

But some hacks could be inside jobs where the hackers get to the humans via bribery, etc.

They need a system of checks n balances, where everything, every one is checked on.

This was grossly lacking @ NSA w/ Snowden & in the Army w/ Pvt Manning.

Again, most damaging weaknesses are not in the hardware or software but in the wetware, the brain, the human.

911 is in the same category as NSA & the Army: poorly monitored wetware declined to perform to specifications.

[Charles]

Threat is always there akin to humans who will die at anytime in their life. Websites can get hacked but administrator are doing there best to improve the security of their website.

[adaviel]

Yes and no. I could make an unhackable website that was running on a read-only CD, or an old static-page site with no Web 2.0 features and no way for anyone to log in and write anything except from some locked-down clients. But then someone could hack my DNS (or other people's DNS) or the BGP routing and just divert everyone from my unhackable server to a hacked copy.

[Bkrayzay]

Yes it can. Here's why, as new technologies develop so do ways to hack. While large companies such as Google, and Yahoo are great about hiring ethical hackers to find weak points in security nothing and I mean NOTHING is fool proof! Now as far as Google its self, well that's more secure than an account! You have to figure in the Human factor. Let's go over this, the human factor is the user/account holder/YOU, this tends to be the biggest weak point in account security. Despite the fact that Google may be secure your account will NEVER be AS secure because of the aforementioned human factor. When it comes to the user, they tend to make mistakes such as easy passwords, downloading key loggers, an all around poor online practices. Even though Google can do a whole bunch for THEIR security, they can't ensure YOU do your part to protect your own account, and THIS is the human factor! The user gets an account, goes to a bad site, and poof you get malware and lose your account...Google has NO control over this! About the ONLY thing that could be done is limiting access by IP, but IPs can be spoofed to look like any desired IP, they can change upon router resets, and you would only be able to access them through that one specific IP, so it is not a desirable method for security. The sad part is while Google, Yahoo, Youtube, and Facebook spend thousands and even millions in preventative measures, they can't take out the weakest point in the security....the USER!