|
M2B
Web Solutions
Consulting  Security
What is Internet Security?....
As various systems are increasingly employed as servers and in critically important functions, they are usually part of Wide Area Networks (WANs) or Local Area Networks (LANs). The simple fact that these computers are connected makes these information-sharing systems vulnerable to intrusions or unwanted activities. These activities can vary from snooping or espionage to downright attacks or the infliction of damage to the systems involved, up to and including complete destruction of the host system.
Some quotes I gathered over the last year:
|
 |
|
|
|
It took only six hours to spread worldwide, cost companies billions of dollars, and could have been stopped by a simple mail filter.
Yet today, many people would still fall prey to Internet viruses and worms similar to the "Love Bug," security experts said....
Hackers storm White House Web site
Online vandals launched a denial-of-service attack on the Bush administration's Whitehouse.gov domain Friday, similar to assaults that crippled Yahoo and seven other major Web sites more than a year ago.
Two Internet service providers said midday Friday that they found evidence of a coordinated strike on government information servers that support the site. Several hours later, a White House spokesman acknowledged that the site had indeed been attacked....
Security experts warn that network intruders -- once only a boogeyman for large corporations and government agencies -- are becoming an increasing threat to home users, especially those wired to the Internet via new broadband connections such as cable modem and DSL.
"Home users don't have the right security tools nor the understanding about why they need them," said Eugene Spafford, computer science professor and security expert at Purdue University. "They are much more likely to be prone to attack, or their machines used in distributed, coordinated attacks."
Three Microsoft sites attacked
Microsoft’s UK, Mexico and Saudi Arabia sites were replaced with messages from the hacker group Prime Suspectz....
Hacker exploits Microsoft server flaw
'Dark Spyrit' has posted a program designed to exploit a security hole revealed two days ago by Microsoft. It gives almost anyone the ability to completely control a Windows 2000 server...."
Quotes are from a variety of sources, including ZD Net , Microsoft, and a variety of above-board and underground Security sites.
Some are, as I update, a year old- and it hasn't gotten any better. In fact, the proliferation of viruses and worms is sure to increase with time. Code Red and Nimda were yet to come, numerous servers unwittingly participated in DOS attacks against sites such as Gibson Research 1 out of 13 PC's scanned on-line at Symantec has a Trojan horse program on it, and 32 % are at risk.
|
|
|
