Pc's Are Everywhere, So Too Are Criminals

Think about an average day in your life: run through your twenty four hour schedule

. Amidst all of the stuff you do, technology is right there with you. It begins as soon as you wake up; if you are an ordinary worker, you have to use an automobile to get there. Before that, you have turn up your espresso machine to get you going in the early morning! Most people have such a need for coffee that they cannot even function beforehand. Once you have used all of this technology to get you up, you are at work.

That is, if your first destination is work. Maybe you need to make a side trip for some food, so you key it into your handy dandy Global Positioning System (GPS for the tech savvy) and drive off where the satellites guide you. Your robotic computer voice will show you the best route, glancing down at your pinpoint from space. At the fast food joint, you use a small piece of plastic to pay for your food, something an early colonist would have thought was alien technology. Another thing they would have been shocked about too: such an abundance of food!

Once you've had your early morning coffee and food fix, you have presumably arrived at work safe and ready for an exciting day hard at work for capitalism. Assuming you work in some sort of job for a large company running a small aspect of it, your life for the next hours of the day revolves around computers. Think about how often at work you utilize technology in your daily activities; even the most basic functions of the corporation could not run without some system of communication.

You immediately head for your personal computer and start typing away at the day's accomplishments and to do lists. Suddenly, your trusty computer crashes and you have to employ the help of your supervising manager. Through a complex intercom system, you patch him in and he fixes what ailed your system. Technology and its products help every thing about a company. The problem is though, when you are in a capitalist enterprise, you forget about the actual people you are trying to sell to.

When you are at your board meetings and the president asks how you guys can bring up sales of a product, obviously the key is to the customers. After all, they are the ones you are producing for and the ones who are putting their money into your hands. The best way to reach people is via advertising, so you set out on acquiring some ad space and set up an ad. Would you ever think to tell people you will exchange any of your company's personal information in exchange for their business?

This sounds absurd, and would probably fail as a viable marketing ploy. It also makes no sense, as giving away personal details of your company would allow the holder to steal from or make decisions that could negatively affect you and the other workers. With this kind of information, you might as well have handed them the keys to the company. The money that they gave you in exchange for intimate access to your company's data would actually enable them to re-wire the money back to them, so you would gain nothing at all.

Although nobody in their right minds would attempt the above scheme, one has to realize and accept that people can get gain access to such information without having to take part in your venturous marketing ploy. If a hacker so choose to, they could just break into the computer you used that day to sign into your accounts at work. Then, if they are experienced and know how to hide their identities, they would never be caught. So while technology escorted you through your tough morning, it could also be the downfall of your business.

How do you stop these hackers then from breaking into your personal data reservoirs? The most quickly found answer is to just use some sort of defense protocol on all of your online systems, but sometimes this is not enough. The best answer is to actually just be more careful. Oftentimes the criminal who does these acts is actually just some guy in your office trying to make an extra buck. Just don't give out information haphazardly, and make use of online security systems.

by: Andrew Virender

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