Many wary computer users aren't as quick to click when deceptively innocent attachments beckon. Allows for victims to sue for damages. Someone needs to just trespass on a protected network to violate this. Viruses and equally pernicious hackers aren't going away. They're increasing, and network security specialists used a technology forum last week to warn business people of the do's and don'ts of shielding computers.
Companies now scramble to protect themselves with firewalls, as well as padlocks on their doors.
They hire systems administrators as well as security guards. The enemy could be anybody with a computer and a modem. Down the street or around the world. But no single measure leads to security. At the ITEC technology fair in Virginia Beach on Wednesday and Thursday, information security teams warned against believing in the silver bullet, of being the weakest link.