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	Computer insecurity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Because computer systems can be very complex, and cannot be guaranteed to be free of defects, this security stance tends to produce insecure systems.
		Computer code is regarded by some as just a form of mathematics.
		Computer security is a highly complex field, and is relatively immature, except in the area of designing computers that are secure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer_insecurity (2121 words)

	Computer security - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Computer security can be seen as a subfield of security engineering, which looks at broader security issues in addition to computer security.
		Firewalls are systems which help protect computers and computer networks from attack and subsequent intrusion by restricting the network traffic which can pass through them, based on a set of system administrator defined rules.
		Computer security is a highly complex field, and it is relatively immature, except on certain very secure systems that never make it into the news media because nothing ever goes wrong that can be publicized, and for which there is not much literature because the security details are proprietary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer_security (2082 words)

	Computer Insecurity ...Infotechloco.com
		Because computer systems are very complex, and cannot be guaranteed to be free of defects, this security stance tends to produce insecure systems.
		Malicious individuals have regularly penetrated well-designed, secure computer systems by taking advantage of the carelessness of trusted individuals, or by deliberately deceiving them, for example sending messages that they are the system admin and asking for passwords.
		In practice, only a small fraction of computer program code is mathematically proven, or even goes through extensive security audits, so it's usually possible for a determined cracker to read, copy, alter or destroy data in well secured computers.
	www.infotechloco.com /computerinsecurity.html (1288 words)

	Secure Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Please see the computer insecurity article for an alternative approach that describes the current battlefield of computer security exploits and defenses.'' Computer security is the effort to create a secure computing platform, designed so that agents (users or programs) can only perform actions that have been allowed.
		There should be an outline level security section geared for small computing user with a checklist of items to tick off in order to harden their environment and protect privacy: Operating system security releases, software security releases, hardware or software firewall, antivirus software, alternative software (FireFox instead of IE), maybe even anti-spyware software.
		I've removed all the computer insecurity stuff into its own article computer insecurity, and I now propose that the security (computers) stuff should be merged into the remaining Computer security article.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/161/secure-computing.html (1268 words)

	Computer Security...Your Information Technology Directory Site
		In the field of computer security, social engineering is the practice of obtaining confidential information by manipulation of legitimate users.
		Computer forensics is the process of investigating data processing equipment-- typically a home computer, laptop, server, or office workstation-- to determine if the equipment has been used for illegal, unauthorized, or unusual activities.
		The British Computer Society (BCS) is a professional association within the UK consisting of IT practitioners, the society has a Royal Charter.
	www.infotechloco.com /computersecurity.html (351 words)

	computer security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The original computers were the size of a large room, and such enormous computing facilities still exist for specialised scientific computation - supercomputers - and for the transaction processing requirements of large companies, generally called mainframes.
		Smaller computers for individual use, called personal computers, are perhaps the form most people are most familiar with, and their portable equivalent the notebook computer.
		However, the most common form of computer in use today is the embedded computer, a (usually) small computer used to control another device.
	www.nukeroyal.com /directory/computer-security.html (395 words)

	Computer security
		Computer security is the effort to create a secure computing platform, designed so that agents (users or programs) cannot perform actionss that they are not allowed to perform, but can perform the actions that they are allowed to.
		In the case of a computer system sequestered in a vault without any means of power or communication, the term 'secure' is applied in a pejorative sense only.
		Unfortunately, a computer industry group led by Microsoft, in an attempt to market a different set of products and services, has taken the term "trusted system" and changed it a bit to include making comuter hardware that prevents the user from having full control over the system they own.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/c/co/computer_security_1.html (1178 words)

	Computer insecurity (Linux Reviews)
		Except for difficulty in removing spyware most malware incidents mean a few days of hell for the computer owner and users, followed by living without that which could not be removed, and perhaps buying software whose proof of purchase was stored on the computer whose data has now been lost in the recovery process.
		So for each victim of computer damage, the individual cost can run from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand, and several days of their time.
		Computer security is a highly complex field, and is relatively immature, except in the area of designing computers that are secure from the get go.
	linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Computer_insecurity (2053 words)

	Issues in S and T, Summer 2003, Computer Insecurity
		In spite of repeated examples of the vulnerability of almost all computer systems to invasion and manipulation, very few people recognize the magnitude of the damage that can be done and even fewer have taken adequate steps to fix the problem.
		Because so many computer users and system administrators are not sufficiently aware of the vulnerabilities of their systems, they are not demanding more secure systems from vendors.
		We need an information campaign to make computer users and system administrators more aware of how vulnerable their systems are to attack so that they will be motivated to employ defensive techniques.
	www.issues.org /19.4/updated/neumann.html (2288 words)

	America
		In an era where computers are so prevalent the terms spyware and adware are thrown around interchangeable; however few people could actually tell you the difference.
		Everyone has experienced the inconvenience of pop-up ads and the nuisance of using a computer that runs at a crawl, and the average person has no idea how they got infected nor how to remove the problem so they just live frustrated with their computers.
		Computer engineers have made steps toward correcting the problems with different virus protection programs available such as Norton Anti-Virus but it seems that the computer engineers are always one step behind.
	www.pitt.edu /~mjo16/trends.html (993 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Taking computer insecurity seriously
		For while we shouldn't exempt the computing industry from its share of blame, it is clear that everyone with an Internet-connected computer has a general responsibility to the network as a whole.
		When a computer tries to connect to a protected network, it first has to verify that it complies with that network's security standards.
		If the computer doesn't conform then it is only able to connect to a single server, one which provides the patches and security software it needs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/3666702.stm (994 words)

	Computer Security Systems
		Computer Immune Systems Computer Immune Systems A research group at the University of New Mexico Computer Science Department is using an analogy to biological immune systems to develop similarly functioning computer security systems.
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		most computer systems cannot be made secure even after the application of extensive "computer security" measures...
	www.offersonly.com /computer_security_systems.html (189 words)

	Computer Security Article
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		computer insecurity article for an alternative approach that describes the current battlefield of computer security...
		The major technical areas of computer security are usually represented by the initials CIA...
	www.offersonly.com /computer_security_article.html (198 words)

	Nicolas Vermeys, "Computer "Insecurity" and Viral Attacks:Liability Issues Regarding Unsafe Computer ...
		Computer viruses which hold the power to bring complete computer systems to a halt are no longer exclusive to the field of science fiction.
		Businesses who do not have adequate computer security policies could be held liable if it were established that a reasonable, prudent and diligent business would have adopted such a policy, and if having a security policy would have prevented the damage, or not having one contributed to the damage.
		If a company's computer is reasonably secure against being used as a slave in an attack on one other computer, the marginal cost of protecting it from attacking another 100 million computers is essentially zero.
	www.lex-electronica.org /articles/v9-1/vermeys.htm (6703 words)

	ob.blog » A Chicken Little approach to computer insecurity
		It seems to me that there is an epidemic raging in the States right now around so-called Computer Crime, but it is not being perpetrated by these criminals, it is being perpetrated by over-reactive administrative bodies who believe that computer trespass is somehow criminally on par with bank robbery, car jacking, and murder.
		Had each laptop had a unique master password, as is common standard practice in computer security, this damage would have been greatly mitigated by requiring each and every student to figure out their own password, rather than allowing one to spread like wildfire.
		Personally, give a bunch of kids computers and I would be very disappointed if they didn’t figure out how to make them do lots of things you never expected them to be used for.
	www.postal-code.com /mrhappy/blog?p=695 (702 words)

	The Net Growth In Insecurity
		The proliferation of networking has aided computer insecurity in many ways: by presenting additional vulnerable resources (such as the network itself, and millions of computers) and by connecting many more people together (more disinformation, more social engineering, more electronic mail, more communication scenarios in general).
		Computer networks play a role in essentially every attack today, and numerous attacks focus on the networks themselves, rather than simply using them as a communication channel.
		Most computer users I know used to get depressed if they had not received any email within the last hour.
	www.kernelthread.com /publications/security/net.html (646 words)

	Homeland Insecurity
		Sponsored by the cryptography firm RSA Security, the conferences are attended by as many as 10,000 cryptographers, computer scientists, network managers, and digital-security professionals.
		There was applause from the hundreds of seated cryptophiles when Schneier mounted the stage, and more applause from the throng standing in the aisles and exits when he apologized for the lack of seating capacity.
		But as computers have become both attackers' chief targets and their chief weapons, a new generation of security professionals has emerged, drawn from the ranks of engineering and computer science.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2002/09/mann.htm (2548 words)

	Security engineering - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Technological advances, principally in the field of computers, have now allowed the creation of far more complex systems than before, with new and complex security problems.
		See secure computing for a discussion of computer security using this approach.
		See computer insecurity for an example of the failure of this approach in the real world.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Security_engineering (381 words)

	Computer insecurity: Bush must act now to guard information
		THE LACK of computer security in the federal government is appalling.
		Inexperienced security consultants at a brand new computer consluting company were able this summer to access defense department computers and obtain information about radio encryption, aircraft targeting techniques, personnel records, bank routing numbers and military maneuvers, The Washington Post reported Friday.
		Also reported last week was an audit revealing that the IRS has lost track of "an unknown number" of laptop computers loaned to volunteers who assist people with their tax returns.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/735150/posts (596 words)

	Internet Insecurity
		Briz.I also allows the infected computer to be used as a gateway to access other websites, masking the attacker, and grants access to files in the affected system.
		The anti-spyware then flmails users by informing them that their computer is infected, and telling them that the only way to clean their computer is to buy the program license.
		This malware allows the computer to be used as a gateway for connecting to other pages and masking the identity of the attacker, who can also remotely access files on the local computer.
	unsecure.blogspot.com (1784 words)

	U.S. Computer Insecurity Redux - Peter G. Neumann
		The United States continues to face serious challenges in protecting computer systems and communications from unauthorized use and manipulation.
		In terms of computer security, the situation is worse than ever, correlated with the nation's dramatically increased dependence on computers, the widespread growth of the Internet, the steady creation of popular applications, and our heightened dependence on the integrity of others.
		There is a seemingly endless stream of old and new security flaws, coupled with markedly increased security threats and risks, such as viruses, Trojan horses, penetrations, insider misuse, identity theft, and fraud.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2004/february/Sa23670.htm (271 words)

	Peter Neumann's Home Page
		My first computer job was in the summer of 1953, as a programmer on the IBM Card-Programmed Calculator, for the U.S. Naval Ordnance Lab in White Oak MD, a punched-card machine with four registers and ZERO memory.
		He has also summarized the proceedings currently ongoing in Santa Clara County, where he and I and (remotely) Rebecca Mercuri were involved in trying to get the county to include a voter-verified paper audit trail as a part of their efforts to rush into all-electronic voting machines.
		Of particular relevance on that topic are some of the reports of Department of Transportation reports by Alex Blumenstiel that are cited in my paper, and a long series of GAO reports (click on airport security and on terrorism), all of which seem to have been almost completely ignored.
	www.csl.sri.com /users/neumann (9037 words)

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