A Review on a post on Internet Security from My E-commerce blog

According to the blog, I have realized a lot of things on what security is and how important is it to protect ourselves.

For the China’s case, 1 million in 12 months is a lot. viruses, worms, and Trojans being able to reach this scary figure indicates a loud warning sign. Ironically, as long as there are virus an all these in this world, there are antivirus software and others. They seem to come as if they were planned. Adding the calculation made that 1 million out of 130 million which is about 0.77% malwares found in china, this is a scary amount. Added to the disaster, China can fall back in a lot of knowledge and updates in the current world. It is the internet that keeps everything alive!

Malware is another dangerous thing. It is all out to fool anti-virus programs. Which means our anti virus might not be able to detect it. Now, it all happened vastly during year 2007. Question is why? Was it because of the unstable economic condition that made people find means to get money? Or, was it due to some enemy between the countries top military peoples? Or is it due to more and more criminals out there on the loose, getting revenge against whoever they want to? In fact, hi-tech criminals are actually trying to mixed up programs created to detect them.

Many security firms for example, Panda Software, AV Test and f-secure have reported a significant increased in the viruses found online. Which means it is no longer that safe anymore for us to serve the net as we used to in the past. To the extent that even bloggers are being threatened? Like for the joke on the John cow web being hacked? That was a funny yet interesting one, but only to the extent that no harm was caused. Actually, it shows how important it is to prevent and protect our blogs from being hacked. Besides overriding our personal rights and disturbing our private peaceful lives, these hackers are nothing but a bunch of nonsense. Various prevention is recommended and to me, better safe than sorry.

To me, sometimes messages needed to be passed on, or conveyed on to attract people’s attention onto something serious is important. Yes, the method is indeed very important. But, to use such ridiculers and absorb way is a little insensible isn’t it? It misleads others making others having to go through many unnecessary troubles. Maybe US people think differently. According to the comments given, I guess only a hand full are acting and thinking normally.

Indeed fighting cyber terrorism is important, but I personally hope this sum of money spent is not misused again. People want to see results, the outcome for such an amount paid. The serious cyber war that occurred in Estonia is astonishing. No one is hurt, no blood spilt, no killings, no bombing, no nothing. But, the damage is severe. Its such a small place. In fact, not counting in my low geography knowledge, I myself have never heard of this place before! I am also quite certain, cyber war won’t stop. This is merely the beginning of a cold and brutal war.

The best examples for spams are the junk mails we received in our mails. There are so may types of spams. For example, spam in blogs, mobile phone messaging (my 1^st encounter) and internet forum spam. The new tactics like PDF spam, Piggyback Spam and greeting card spam are interesting. The innovative hackers or rather spam creators, used various ways to get their spamware into out personal pc. But, it looks like they’re going to have a hard time now since we are all aware of such things.

As for the Pentagon’s case, the US Defense Security really doesn’t use emails? This sounds like a joke to me. Sources of hackers include recreational hackers, self-styled cyber-vigilantes, various groups with nationalistic and ideological agendas, trans-national actors and nation-status.

Now this really attracted my attention. I don’t know if I am being ignorant about what’s going on but, I really have never of mobile malware? It seems even mobile devices can be affected! This is a dangerous indication. It seems as if everything we use, do have might become a threat to our own lives. There are several potential threats and also some prevention too. We should really take not of them.

To me, everyone has their rights to personal life. These stealing indirectly cause people to loose their privacy. Its like, putting an advertisement of your biodata including other information which are private and confidential having the perception that everyone on earth holds a right to your life! No way!! This is too much. Sometimes, for their own benefits, humans are willing to do anything and just everything to get what they want. Now that’s what I call reality. However, since company’s and organizations are holding people’s personal data, regardless of whether is it P & C or not, it is the trust entrusted to them by users. It is only the company’s responsibility to make sure everything is in tip top condition. They should be given the 1^st top priority when it comes to security.

Well, what can I say? Competition is everywhere. But, the fact is, dirty works turn me really off. Why can’t people compete fairly? Oh well, nothing’s fair. The only thing that is fair given by God, is 24 hours a day. That’s all. Not even justice and law of the high courts make fair equal judgment sometimes.

To me, these hackers are genius. Like the guy from Singapore? To me, I felt that the government should really make use of these kind of people to really track and hack down hackers. Well, they are one of a kind. It is possible that only an actor will recognize another actor. That’s very true. Remember the show, Catch Me if You Can? Now, that’s the best example.

There are always new treats coming up everyday. And, we can’t stop these things from happening. All we can do is just read and update ourselves to make sure we are at the safe side. That’s the best we can do to stop all these from becoming more famous. Just like, stop the killing by stop the buying.

by Liew Yilin