We're fortunate that our systems in NCCE are administered quite well. We try to be good netizens to insure that our systems aren't used by e-thugs in malicious ways. In spite of all our precautions we still get hacked. You would be amazed at the amount of staff time used to repair hacker damage. In most cases you, as users of the systems, have no idea that your systems have even been compromised.
Hackers often gain access to our systems in pretty unsophisticated ways.
The weakest link is people themselves, and this is where we need your help. These are simple but extremely important measures that all of us can take to help keep our systems more secure. We would just as soon avoid the type of media attention that was focused on the University of California.