subject: Computer Security Ethics And Privacy [print this page] Computer Security Ethics and Privacy Computer Security Ethics and Privacy
by Keith Davies
Today, many people rely on computers to do homework, work, and create or store useful information. Therefore, it is important for the information on the computer to be stored and kept properly. It is also extremely important for people on computers to protect their computer from data loss, misuse, and abuse. For example, it is crucial for businesses to keep information they have secure so that hackers cant access the information.
They would usually send a company a very threatening email stating that they will release some confidential information, exploit a security leak, or launch an attack that will harm a companys network. A script kiddie is someone who is like a cracker because they may have the intentions of doing harm, but they usually lack the technical skills. They are usually silly teenagers that use prewritten hacking and cracking programs.
However, one must remember that there is no one hundred percent guarantee way to protect your computer so becoming more knowledgeable about them is a must during these days. The typical network attacks that puts computers at risk includes viruses, worms, spoofing, Trojan horses, and denial of service attacks. Computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses are all classifies as malicious-logic programs which are just programs that deliberately harms a computer.
One, when an individual runs an infected program so if you download a lot of things you should always scan the files before executing, especially executable files. Fourth is when it connects an unprotected computer to a network. There are literally thousands of computer malicious logic programs and new one comes out by the numbers so thats why its important to keep up to date with new ones that come out each day. Many websites keep track of this.
There is no known method for completely protecting a computer or computer network from computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horses, but people can take several precautions to significantly reduce their chances of being infected by one of those malicious programs. Whenever you start a computer you should have no removable media in he drives. This goes for CD, DVD, and floppy disks.
When the computer starts up it tries to execute a bot sector on the drives and even if its unsuccessful any given various on the bot sector can infect the computers hard disk. If you must start the computer for a particular reason, such as the hard disk fails and you are trying to reformat the drive make sure that the disk is not infected.
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