Internet Insecurity The was founded as a tool based on trust It is an entity – impossible to Email is not have the right to view employees’ Email that travels over the internet may be and and Not all protect their

Spam Spam: Spammers get your address by: Now represents 94% of all email 650,000 people ordered a product or service offered in spam in one month Spammers get your address by: lists of email addresses email from internet email addresses

Spam To Stop or Reduce Spam: Talk to your Keep Never When you sign up for something, don’t give Use Best AntiSpam software (according to Consumer Report, 2007): 1. Trend Micro 2. Check Point 3. Cloudmark 4. Smith Micro 5. SpamFighter Fight back by reporting new spammers to www.abuse.net or www.spamhaus.org

Faking the return email address Using trusted institutional names to elicit confidential info E.g., eBay, PayPal, a bank, etc. The fake site has Today: over 37000 of these sites Past 2 years: ~ 1 million people have lost billions of dollars Solutions: delete email that asks you to at a linked web site through a browser, using your bookmark or by typing in the that you know. Keep and updated – both will notify you about web sites

Little left on your hard disk by some you visit Can include your Can be convenient But they can be used to about you and your To see on your PC, go to Documents and Settings/Administrator/

that can track a computer user’s and . About 34% of computers got in the last 6 months Ave computer – a dozen or more downloads without your knowledge Captures info about and Info is then transmitted to the can track virtually anything Your Etc.

To prevent : Be careful about free and illegal Don’t say when you are something – read the Install and use at all times Best ones in order (according to Consumer Report, 2007): Trend Micro Sunbelt Software F-Secure Mcfee BitDefender