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Foil 4 Computer crimes (3)

From Computer Crimes: Examples of Network Security attacks Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- April 23 99. by Roman Markowski


Attacks
  • Hostile Java applets
  • Invasion of privacy - access and modification to private data
  • viruses (for Windows and Unix)- annoying, destructive
There is no such thing as a 100% secure computer network
Only 5% of crackers write their own code; most cracker tools is publicly available
Large majority of attacks are INTERNAL ( altering data; stealing source code; damaging computer systems; revealing confidential information)



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