Security – Types of Spam and How to Avoid Or Cure it

Sheila Ramos
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  We have all heard, received and read the e-mail or letter saying that so and so over in (name a country) has left you a sizable sum of money. It is yours for free, but you just need to do this…

Well now these con artists have stepped it up. Some are actually sending, what seem to be, real checks for you to deposit. These checks look real and can even fool the bank personnel. But they are actually counterfeit and if you go a little bit too far with these schemes- you’ll end up losing some money – even if it the check is counterfeit.

From outside the company, threats are extremely dangerous. From viral attacks, planting Trojans and interception of valuable data, the attacks can come from numerous sources and at anytime. With much business done over the Internet access to almost any network from anywhere can invite attackers and data thieves.

If you think that your company has nothing valuable to steal or sabotage, think again. Every company has employee’s Social Security numbers and many that deal with customers have credit cards on file.

You may think too that no one would care about breaking into your network from the outside or understand who would want to transmit a nasty virus. One thing is for sure, if the network is left open to being a target, someone will find a reason.

  They also usually say that when sending the money back to them that you “wire” it to them.

Now if you do all this – deposit the sum of money, smile when you see the large sum of money in your account, and gladly wire them their small ‘fee’, you’ll soon be crying because within a day or two of all this your check will bounce. This will leave you with no money (from your windfall) and will leave you stuck losing the money you wired them, since you can’t get this money back. (why do you think they said ‘wire’ them the money?)

Technology changes too fast in the world today that a final solution that withstands the test of time is never on option. It is a fairly well understood concept that the next advance always supersedes endurance of any technological progress.

So the network keepers, the administrators, have an eternal security problem on their hands. Whether it is keeping track of deleting the passwords of exiting employees or preventing malicious interception of data transmissions, the work never ends.

To do the job, deployment of the latest encryption schemes are a critical mission because obsolete data encoding only tempts criminals to steal information that can be easily read. Diligent network monitoring, both with human eyes and sophisticated intelligent scanning software, demands the tenacious attention of the administrator.

An overall and all encompassing network security solution is not a reality for any computer network or its administrators. The task is large and varied in scope on many fronts. It is simply a fact of modern technology that the only real solution is to eternally fight the crusade You can be published without charge. You can to republish this article in your website or blog. Please provide links Active.