How to Prevent Hacking of your PC? Part. 3

Internet Security Facts
Between 80% and 90?/0 of successful computer attacks come from insiders.
Thirty percent of employees would do the unethical thing, given the right amount of money: Companies only catch 2% of security break-ins.
Most hacker-s are single males, age 16 to 28, from middle-income families.
Of 8,932 computers attacked, 7,860 were broken into, 390 detected the attack, and only 19 reported the attack, according to the Department of Defense.
In the first six months of 1993, the Forum for Internet Response and Security Teams identified more than 2 million sniffers running on Internet hosts.
For every incident a human' operator finds, he misses 75, according to Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Source: David Dumas, GTE Laboratories
Hacking Help
The good news is that help regarding hacking exists all over the Internet The bad news is that the help usually is for the bad guys, said David Dumas, GTE Laboratories principal ,member of technical staff. To see some sites where hackers learn their techniques and communicate with one another, check out the following:
www.thecodex.com/hacking.html
www.insecure.org/index.html
www.fc.net/phrack
utopia.hacktic.nl/
verbosity.wiw.org/neogenesis/features! hack.html
According to Cynthia Ward, Vestcom vice president of marketing and product development, several industry initiatives have sprung up to help companies ward off hack attacks. She pointed to The National Automated Clearinghouse Association (www.nacha.org) and Just in Time Solutions (www.justintime.com) for helpful information. Carriers also can find anti-hacking help from Purdue University (www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/coast-library.html), CTIA (www.wowcom.com),The Forum of Incident Response and SecurityTeams (first.org/). The Security Assurance Company (www.icsa.net/), Information Security Magazine (www.infosecuritymag.com/and Secure Computing (www.sctc.com/).
Tax Evasion?
Security is not the only thing you have to worry about when it comes to e-commerce, according to Arthur Andersen's Interconnect. U.S. Congressman Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House Commerce Committee's Telecommunications Subcommittee, predicted consumers will soon pay taxes on e-commerce. Andersen said the National Governors' Association reports states could lose $15 to $20 billion a year in sales taxes due to e-commerce's popularity.

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