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| January
22, 2008:
Changes In Internet Security
Interview
with Mark Sunner Chief Security Analyst for Message Labs
www.messagelabs.com |
Mike
Carruthers:
If you use the Internet, you know about viruses, spam and phishing. Where does
this stuff come from?
Mark Sunner:
Viruses of
yesteryear (and by that I mean pre - 2003) really were sort of the preserve of
young adolescent males who were doing this stuff purely for notoriety within their
own circles or just for sheer maliciousness. Mark
Sunner, Chief Security Analyst for Message Labs, an Internet security company,
says today all this bad stuff on the Internet has become big business. Interestingly,
if you follow the money trail, there are often hot spots that stand out: Eastern
Europe is one, so particularly Russia and the Ukraine - and also China appears.
And one of the reasons that motivates that is there is an absence of legislation
in those territories to stop it. So,
for now the problem is actually getting worse and to protect yourself you need
to be vigilant with anti-virus software, firewalls, and spam filters. But Mark
says there is some good news. Think
of it as like water filtering. You wouldn't expect to have to boil your own water
each time before you could use it, clearly that would be insane. Yet in Internet
terms, that is what everyone is currently doing with their traffic. Now the same
way as in the water scenario - you expect your water to have been filtered upstream
over time -we will start to see filtering beginning to take place at the Internet
layer and that will become the norm. That's the thing that's missing currently,
but that will change.
At
somethingyoushouldknow.net
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