Vulnerabilities are holes, weaknesses, and problems that exist in computer systems. Incidents include credit card theft or other informationdata theft. The first slide documents the top security breaches. An example of an electronic exploit is finding a hole where you can install a backdoor to get into a computer system. To give you an idea of how fast incidents are occurring, the second slide examines the increase in just one type of breach, the virus.
Viruses can also destroy information on a computer system. .
In October 1999 alone, there were 2,007more than 2000 new known viruses. In November 1999, there were 2,427 new viruses. Look at how these numbers have dramatically increased in 2000. In October 2000, there were 30,678 new viruses. In November 2000, there were 23,962 new viruses.