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CYBER THREAT PART II

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The third threat in the form of business conduct modifi cation of the data or information flowing on the Internet for destructive purposes, such as memfi tnah, misleading, provoke them, destroying the image, and deceive others.
For the nations that are fi physical or ideological still at war, the ways mentioned above is the activity of “war” everyday that can happen in cyberspace. The fourth threat in the form of an individual’s will to spread the wrong things to all people in the world, such notions are misleading, pornographic image and media, information supporting acts of terrorism, offer gambling activities, ways of committing crimes and others hidden. The fifth and final threat of the spread and planting malicious programs (read: malicious software) to computers that connect to the internet with a variety of purposes, ranging from non-destructive as the view that no diiginkan, disrupt the function of letters on the board press (read: keyboard), no operation of input-output devices, until that is highly destructive, like deleting the contents of your hard disk, retrieve data without the owner, mematamatai user activity, tie up a computer or more known by the term “hang”, degrading the performance of the processor speed and other things that are so damaging.

Companies ill-prepared for Cyber Crime

From a sample of accounting firm Ernst and Young, quarter of the companies is inadequate security against cyber criminals.The economic crisis plays an important role.

Of the respondents, one in eight companies last year some were the victims of cyber fraud in which money was stolen. One in ten companies were copied sensitive information. Here I was terrified of it. Did not realize how close it was! The damage that cyber criminals cause is not known exactly, but this involves billions of euros. Not normal. Time for action.

Entrepreneurs should take measures against these cyber criminals, but by the economic crisis, they are less inclined to invest in system security. In 43 percent of respondents have access to the system is not sufficiently regulated and sensitive data. Read the rest of this entry »