posted on August 1, 2001 07:04:53 AM
I've been hearing a lot about internet security on the news lately. What one reporter said was that in 1995, there were very few people online, and most of them knew a lot about computers. Today, almost everyone is online, and most of them know zilch about computers.
So, as one of those who knows next to zilch, my question is this: If you send sensitive information (cc # for eg.) to a secure site, but you yourself don't have a firewall, is that information being sent securely?
While you are protected ON that secure site. You are not protected BEFORE it. You can buy ($69) an NT "snoop" package to install on your employee's computer. It is undetectable to him. It makes a record of his key strokes and does periodic screen captures. Periodically it emails this info to whoever installed it. It has its own email client. The program comes with a disclaimer that it is illegal to install w/o telling the person beforehand.
There are also trojans which do the same thing.
Even at that, these people that hop from 1 foot to the other fearing they will be overwhelmed by Internet cybercrime have a greater chance of getting ripped off by the dozens of people they run to hand their cc to in person.
Tony
