Be Aware of Computer Geeks?

This is the further part from the previous article on freewilley.com about:What Kind of People are Threats to Computers?

OUTSIDE PARTNERS & SUPPLIERS Suppliers and clients may also gain access to a company’s information technology and use it to especially since intranets and extranets have become more commonplace. Partners and vendors also may be the inadvertent source of because their systems may not be as well protected an the networks and computers, and so a third party may penetrate their security.

CORPORATE SPIES Correcting companies or individuals may break into a company’s computer system to conduct industrial espionage secrets that they can use for competitive advantages.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES Just as the various services try to ferret out the secrets of other governments, friendly, so foreign intelligence services arc trying to do the same with us. “In addition,” says one account, “several countries are working the capability to disrupt the supply chains, communications, infrastructure that support the military power of an enemy.”

ORGANIZED CRIME Members of organized crime rings not only steal hardware, software, and data? they also use spam, phishing, and the like to commit identity theft and online fraud. Even street gangs now have their own websites, most of them perfectly legal, but some of them as chat rooms for drug distribution. In addition, gangs use e, way legal businesses do—as business tools—but they use them for illegal purposes, such as keeping track of gambling debts and stolen goods.

TERRORISTS Even before September 11, 2001, the United States was not immune to terrorism, as was seen in the first (1993) bombing of New York’s World Trade Center and the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. But what really focused Americans’ attention on terrorism, of course, was the 2001 hijacked-plane crashes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The Pentagon alone has 650,000 terminals and workstations, 100 WANs, and 10,000 LANs, althoughthe 9/11 attack damaged only a few of them. More serious was the destruction to companies occupying the top floors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, such as Cantor which lost 658 of its approximately 1,000 employ well as its main data center. Although the bond brokerage firm had kept duplicate Hies at a secondary site, it passwords needed to access them, which had he heads of its dead employees. For the first 12 hours the attack, therefore, survivors spent hours trying to guess passwords by recalling the deceased employees’ hobbies, endearments, names of sets,and other likely associations.

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