Economic Crisis to Boost Cyber Crime
By Denholm Barnetson
Thu Apr 16, 2009
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090416/tc_afp/internetcrimecompanymicrosoftfinanceeconomy
Because the economy is so bad, cyber crime is said to be increasing. It is not just about vandalism anymore, says Roger Halbheer, Microsoft's chief security advisor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Now cyber crime is about crashing computers. The good people in the industry are being laid off and now have no money but have time. Cyber crimers have networks of computers they control- then sell them to hackers and people who want to spread viruses. Conflicker is a really bad virus that spread in January, it affected many computers. These viruses are getting worse. Microsoft is updating their malicious software removal tool in order to help prevent these viruses from spreading. This article focuses on Spain and the problems they are dealing with. When problems happen in other countries, their governments may not be stable. If a bank was compromised and money lost in a country with an unstable government- they may not care about it or the virsus and it’ll get worse. This will affect the economy majorly, research in other countries as well international politics.
I think this is a major issue. Many libraries, businesses, CEO’s and academic institutions use the Internet and computers everyday. If a bad virsus gets spread around so that it may affect their everyday work, it could have a ripple affect. As a college student, I could not imagine working without a computer for one day. If Randall library gets a virsus and has to shut down a few computers, many students will be affected. Course websites, scholarly journals, and research is all online. Not just universities, but the government and military uses computers as well. National security is guarded by a computer. Hackers will try and try to break their firewall, and its scary to think that hackers are getting better.I do not think national security will be breached, but drastic changes will happen with the more viruses floating around.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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News Report #4
Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees: Study
By: Miral Fahmy
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/04/reuters_us_work_internet_tech_life
This article talks about a study done in Australia that claims surfing around on the Internet increases productivity at work. Employees who use the Internet for personal reasons are nine percent more productive than those who do not surf the Internet at work. This people are surfing websites such as myspace, face book, google and many other sites. This study claims that de-winding on the Internet helps workers become more concentrated. Many work places spend millions of dollars trying to block their employees from doing these such things, trying to keep them on task, but actually this is helping them! This study was sure to state the difference between browsing on leisure time to de-wind, and being addicted to the Internet all day.
This was a very interesting study. I think employers should be cautious when it comes to the Internet, but not overly cautious. As long as the work is getting done efficiently it should not matter if they browse the Internet in the process. Everyone is unique and carries out a task differently. Not everyone can complete a task working on it 8 hours straight. People’s attention spans are different and some may need to de-wind through out the day. If browsing through web pages helps people’s attention spans and concentration, I think it should be aloud. In the real world, people are not going to be babysat. If they lose their job for abusing the Internet, that should be their fault. I do think however, employers should monitor the sites being viewed. This is to keep the company’s reputation, and promote good behavior in the workforce. Searching youtube and face book on leisure time is certainly different than inappropriate sites people know they should not be viewing.
By: Miral Fahmy
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/04/reuters_us_work_internet_tech_life
This article talks about a study done in Australia that claims surfing around on the Internet increases productivity at work. Employees who use the Internet for personal reasons are nine percent more productive than those who do not surf the Internet at work. This people are surfing websites such as myspace, face book, google and many other sites. This study claims that de-winding on the Internet helps workers become more concentrated. Many work places spend millions of dollars trying to block their employees from doing these such things, trying to keep them on task, but actually this is helping them! This study was sure to state the difference between browsing on leisure time to de-wind, and being addicted to the Internet all day.
This was a very interesting study. I think employers should be cautious when it comes to the Internet, but not overly cautious. As long as the work is getting done efficiently it should not matter if they browse the Internet in the process. Everyone is unique and carries out a task differently. Not everyone can complete a task working on it 8 hours straight. People’s attention spans are different and some may need to de-wind through out the day. If browsing through web pages helps people’s attention spans and concentration, I think it should be aloud. In the real world, people are not going to be babysat. If they lose their job for abusing the Internet, that should be their fault. I do think however, employers should monitor the sites being viewed. This is to keep the company’s reputation, and promote good behavior in the workforce. Searching youtube and face book on leisure time is certainly different than inappropriate sites people know they should not be viewing.
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