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

While the latest technology is available and the use of internet is popular now, the security of the internet has become an important issue that how to prevent the virus, worm and the hacker who try to access the data or the information from us. The threat of internet has given an impact on our freedom to use the internet, savetheinternet.com has provide an article about how does these threat to internet freedom affect us and who will be affected.

This is an E-commerce blog from e-commerce.blogspot that talking about same interesting topic on internet security: 

 

One of these blog is talking about the report of internet security and threat. According the latest Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), volume XIII (ISTR XIII), released on 8 April 2008, Kuala Lumpur had the most bot-infections in the APJ region in the last half of 2007, a significant rise from seventh rank in the first half of the year. (APJ Internet Security Threat Report):

The other finding of the report is following: 

♠    In 2007, Symantec detected 711,912 new threats compared to 125,243 in 2006 – a increase of 468 percent; this brings the total number of malicious code threats detected by Symantec to 1,122,311 as of the end of 2007.

♠   Symantec measured the release of both legitimate and malicious software during a portion of the reporting period and found that 65 percent of the 54,609 unique applications released to the public were categorized as malicious. This is the first time Symantec observed malicious software outpacing legitimate applications.

♠   Theft or loss of a computer or other device made up 57 percent of all data breaches during the last half of 2007 and accounted for 46 percent of all reported breaches in the previous reporting period.

♠   Government was the top industry sector for identities exposed, accounting for 60 percent of the total, an increase from 12 percent in the previous reporting period.

♠   A full identity can be purchased in the underground economy for as little as $1.

Adopted from PUTERA.com

Another interesting post I found in this blog is the case of JohnCow which is joke of Self-hacking own blog to get the message across about how important it is to get your blog backed up. 

It is necessary for us to prevent our data been hacked. This blog also provide some website talking about how to prevent our blog being hacked such as Blogging mix, seolog.com, Jonlee.ca. 

Beside these website that the blog has mention, I also found the others useful website that provide some information about the internet threat and security:

Security Manor: This website has post some latest issue about internet security such as the 6 most common internet security issues, how to preventing identity theft, how to protecting your privacy and security on the internet and how to keeping children safe on the internet.

support.Microsoft.com: How to recover from a computer virus infection and how to prevent future infections from computer viruses in Windows operating systems

wordsandpeople.com: What is spam and how to prevent it

Internet World Stats: How to prevent the online invasion of spyware and adware

Actually, if you type "how to prevent virus of internet" in google website, it will appear many website that provide the knowledge about it. Prevent is better than cure, but the most troublesome I think is the maker of these internet threat such as hacker or virus maker, why they so evil to lead our internet activities so unsafety??