[LM_NET] Share: Top Ten Computer Threats

[edward nizalowski <enizalowski@NVCS.STIER.ORG>]

This was from Educational Digest.  The original article appeared in The
Chronicle of High Education.  The order is least to most serious:

 

Spammers

Cell Phones

Phishers

Social Networks

Outsource Partners

Students

Professors

Staff Members

Thieves

Malware and Botnets

 

Students and professors rate very high because students are very
careless with their passwords.  According to the author of the article,
Jeffery R. Young, professors are even worse and when a "phishing" scheme
circulated at Stanford University, a vast majority of those who got
taken were professors.  As to threat #1: the Georgia Tech Information
Security Center estimates that 15% of online computers worldwide are
part of botnets: computers infected with malicious code that turns them
into "zombies".  

 

Ed Nizalowski, SMS

Newark Valley High School

Newark Valley, NY

enizalowski@nvcs.stier.org

 

"Some people there are who, being grown, forge the horrible task of
learning to read.  It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the
human undertakes, and he must do it as a child."

 

John Steinbeck

 

Currently reading Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

 


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