Real World Cases

Real World Cases

2008 Real World Cases

Introduction

Digital technology , represented by a stream of binary digits , 0 ' and 1 ' actually comes from a manipulation of analog data . The invention of digital technology has created many opportunity for users all around the world . There are people who take benefits from the growing e-commerce , for instances , but in contrast there are also people aim at destroying the benefits of digital technology by creating malicious ware (malware ) and spyware , to name a few

In addition to malware including the viruses , adwares , or hijackers

br spyware does reside in a computer system . Just like a spy , in to collect our credit card information and sending it into a remote host for further criminal actions . Such high-level risk has now spread over the internet that a person should aware of it and keep his computer from such threat by using an appropriate anti spyware program

Since spyware program is likely to provide high-level threat into personal and corporation confidential information such as password and personal identification number (PIN , currently there are many start-ups release anti-spyware program in to take benefits from current situation

According to one report from Forrester Research , such growth is in line with the fact that there are at least 65 of businesses at all sizes confirm to spend their money in protecting their systems from malicious software programs in 2005

The cases highlight that security becomes important issues amidst the unquestioned benefits that they present to users . Concerning the security issues , this will discuss the real world case analysis regarding the incident of failed data security management as happens at Lowe 's , TCI , Bank of America , and Choice Point

Recent Incidents of Data Security Breaches

According to a global survey on financial service industry conducted by Cap Gemini Ernst Young 's it is found that security in a network becomes important issue since it reached peak in 1997 and 1998 when e-commerce started taking off the ground of traditional commerce . In intranet , the security concerns are also as high as the concerns on global network or e-commerce due to the possibility of data hacking and stealing over the Intranet

The cases of Lowe 's , TCI , Bank of America , and ChoicePoint shows that hackers always try to find the security hole in a network or computer systems to obtain the benefits for personal purposes . As named implied hacking can be further elaborated into several actions that lead to the hacking processes as following

Each time a user navigates to a particular web page that has been surfed previously by the same user the information stored in the form of cookies is sent to the server , which helps in identifying the user

Cookies remember the items in a user 's shopping cart even while the user continues shopping and returns to the cart later

Another user sitting on the same computer can access cookies created by one internet user . This is also true in case of networked computers as in...