Corporation, industry and government reliance on information creates opportunities for terrorism. Although the term cyber terrorism is becoming increasingly common but a certain definition of that is still hard.

"Cyber Terrorism is intentional use of troublesome activities, or the threat against computers and networks, with the purpose of causing harm to social, ideological, religious, political or similar objectives, or to frighten any person in advancement of those objectives."

Damage of Internet for just one day could exceed more than $6.5 billion worth of transactions. Increasing importance of computing will increase the value of disruption too. We shouldn't forget that beside financial implications, it has psychological impact either.

Security experts are concerning not only because of increase in frequency of attacks but also because of increase of worldliness level of these attacks and complexity of them. Terrorists can learn new things within each attack which will increase their opportunities for future successes and this will require more laws, strategies and new fields of protection.

Data resources:
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article id=432

Cyber Security & Terrorism

". . . cyber terrorism is real, is here and it's much more likely to affect you and your family than virtually any other major threat we face. . . "

" The cyber pro-harbor is a sense of we are going to be the advent where the cyber vulnerabilities you're able to essentially bring the untiring infrastructure they are." 'Joe Welss - Security Expert'

". . . most of this equipment takes months and months and months to manufacture. A lot of this equipment doesn't even made in united states any more. . . this is very very big large equipment that may and may not be able to be transported over our existing roadways in under bridges, over bridges, etc. . . you are talking about an extremely long time to replace the equipment." 'Joe Welss'

Data resource:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQswmSnGe-8&playnext from=TL&videos=ByKZcSjufhg

Data privacy
Nowadays data privacy of companies within the cyberspace is so vital which can be protected by following four stages:

• Identifying and understanding basic laws and requirements for the company

Making sense of laws and regulations applicable to the business is the most challenging part in many businesses. This will be more visible in the case of multinational companies which are facing different laws within their frontiers. Even in the case of U.S. companies, wide range of regulations makes it very serious problem to develop a comprehensive understand of where is the business and from which states business collects, stores and processes data.

• Get business partners on board

Educating functional partners in Human resource, Auditing departments and business managers makes a cross-functional endeavor within company which along with information security (firewalls, encryption and access protocols) makes strong data privacy teams.

• Prepare in advance for data breaches

Breach response protocols can he help to establish appropriate controls and response plans to potential risks. Drafting data breach policies and creating a breach response team can be considered either.

• Taking vendor compliance for granted

Company should be ensure that its third parties are familiar and compliance with the company's policies as well as applicable laws and standards. Vendor compliance will be included of comprehensive training, regular monitoring of its data-handling procedures and security controls, its right - to - audit clauses and termination rights in the contractual agreement.

Data resource: http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/apr2010/ca2010049_718474.htm

State of Cybercrime

I could find following video on you tube. First, let's look at it:

I believe in the real world always there would be different types of threats around us. From natural disasters such as earthquake and storms to manmade events such as accidents, terrorism, theft or even different type of diseases which could attack us in any time.

Among them, increasing world population, developing technology areas and widely access of people to unlimited information through the Internet causes creation of new types of crimes in cyberspace.

By the way I believe what makes us protective will be our own conservative acts. As I mentioned before, when we do stuff in Internet we should be aware that we are doing it in the public. It is clear that no one can steal anything from us if we keep it unreachable!

Video resource: www.youtube.com

How privacy vanishes online?

Our Social Security number, e-mail address and even our name are all parts of our privacy. Nowadays Internet is full of personal identifying data which based on traditional definition of privacy people wouldn't let others to reach them easily.

Consider social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace which are full of personal details contained birthday greetings, family photos and movies watched. These type of information can be collected and reassembled to create a picture of person or even reach to his/her Social Security number.

Social Security numbers are prized by identity thieves because they can be used as both identifiers and authentications of banking, credit card and other transactions.

As a result, some authorities such as F.T.C are worried about private protection rules' movements along with the new technology. They are looking for tighter industry requirements to stop online monitoring.

But don't forget that : doing stuff online is like doing it in public!

Data resource: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html

How some employees turn to cybercrime?

When recession and high unemployment prolongs, survivals wondering when they would be the next one, which will increase probability of raise in data breaches and high-tech crimes.

In most cases inability to find gainful employment is a recurrent motivation behind theft and software piracy. In one recent case in California a woman in her 20s was arrested with a number of re-encoded credit cards in her possession to buy food.

Investigations show that corporations across all industries have been dealing with a constant growing number of data breaches since the financial meltdown.

Within the company anyone from top excecutives to low-level support employees can have access to different types of data that could be sold illegally. In the case of top administrators and super users' breaches, the organization will lose a great deal of information. Although in the case of average users these losses will be smaller but in a long run they can drag inevitable costs to the company.

These stolen information can range from employees' insurance record or their credit card numbers to company's main projects and confidential agreements or their valuable source codes which could be easily sold to cyber-criminals or be used to get a job with the company's competitors (later has more probability).

Those who remain employed but fear being the next to be fired can also tempt to steal corporate data because it's a common trend that rising stress results circumstances which motivate people to go to financial fraud.

Data resource: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/