Internet Security 2

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only to a certain extent. Many people lack the forethought to make their password something that is not easily guessable. Your name, birth date, or anything that could be guessed with a little bit of thought is a bad idea. The other way to protect a network is to use a firewall. This technology is often effective but can be bypassed, and is often picky about what to let through. In my opinion firewalls give a false sense of security and cannot be used as a sole means of protection. Given enough time most decent computer science majors or anyone really familiar with networks can bust through a firewall. This is why any thing important should be kept in separate folders with their own passwords or kept in an offline source.
Although I found many great cases of Internet crimes I have found the following quite interesting. There was a case in 1993 in which investigators in New York City found that three city Employees had found a flaw in city’s real estate tax computer ...

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is in the statistics of the people that are doing the crimes, “Hackers”. In release 2.1 by Esther Dyson she says “nearly every two out of three people that "hack" into the government’s computers succeed and three out of four that do succeed are never caught”(327). This is a major security breach. The book claims that hackers can easily access extremely important information or data. This does not only happen on the government’s computers but businesses, corporations, non-profit organizations, and more. Only computers running certain software, which allows users on the Internet access to their information, are susceptible to hackers. A majority of ...

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