BBC says PC are attacked every 4.5 seconds and Brazil and India are cyber-crime hot spots. Russia and China are known hacker havens. Viva BRIC – by the BRIC, for the BRIC and fv(k the BRIC !
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The report Web hit by hi-tech crime wave and Brazil and India are vulnerable because “.. those are the places where education and understanding about security are taking a while to catch up" – in other words lots of ‘babes in the woods’ dabbling in the ‘world-wild-web’. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8630160.stm]
The contention is true because I’ve found people using PC on the net without Firewalls, outdated Anti Virus, pirated Anti Virus (?), disabling Anti Virus to install software, kids of 10 and 12 with email ids and orkut presence.
This problem is only the tip of the iceberg – till date, I guess the cyber crime is restricted to stealing money. The time is not far off, when trade secrets and confidences, personal IDs and information are going to be compromised. Wait for ‘cloud computing’ and ‘UID/bio-metric data project’.
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Aside, it would be interesting to know whether this threat from ‘RC’ targeting ‘BI’ within ‘BRIC’ was discussed during the recent BRIC summit. I guess not – reading the reports in Xinhua.
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The report Web hit by hi-tech crime wave and Brazil and India are vulnerable because “.. those are the places where education and understanding about security are taking a while to catch up" – in other words lots of ‘babes in the woods’ dabbling in the ‘world-wild-web’. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8630160.stm]
The contention is true because I’ve found people using PC on the net without Firewalls, outdated Anti Virus, pirated Anti Virus (?), disabling Anti Virus to install software, kids of 10 and 12 with email ids and orkut presence.
This problem is only the tip of the iceberg – till date, I guess the cyber crime is restricted to stealing money. The time is not far off, when trade secrets and confidences, personal IDs and information are going to be compromised. Wait for ‘cloud computing’ and ‘UID/bio-metric data project’.
:-(
Aside, it would be interesting to know whether this threat from ‘RC’ targeting ‘BI’ within ‘BRIC’ was discussed during the recent BRIC summit. I guess not – reading the reports in Xinhua.
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