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As the Internet blossomed, so did related problems. These included malignant spam e-mail, phishing expeditions for personal identity information, and security breaches into sensitive data warehoused servers.

Enterprises and individuals have invested heavily in protecting information from the prying eyes of unscrupulous marketers and identity thieves bent on taking what doesn’t belong to them.

Most of security investments have been very good at working in terms of bits and bytes and all of the technical details of protecting systems and limiting scourges like spam.

For example, a good antivirus program can filter out seemingly innocent e-mail by examining all of its technical aspects. Or, a firewall can analyze the flow of data into a business network and look for tell-tale signs of threatening data and, consequently, block that threat.

Perhaps the most sophisticated and malevolent computer threat to crack isn’t made of silicon, but instead of flesh and blood.

The latest and most effective means to gain access to a person’s identity information is as old as the con itself.

For example, instead of spamming with a virus-infected e-mail that may be filtered by antivirus software, today’s con artists disperse digitally-clean e-mail urging users to visit a particular Web site or even call a particular telephone number.

The urging may be in the form of a statement promising financial gain or a warning that something is terribly wrong with a bank account or a nefarious invitation to something very personal or naughty.

And these invitations are well disguised with a cloak of legitimacy by pretending to be from eBay, or PayPal, or your own bank.

The bottom line is that to a technical watchdog - like a firewall - these messages may be free of any malicious computer code, but the contents of the message are carefully worded to get a person to pick up a phone or visit a Web site where a sinister trap waits.

So if a business has already invested in the technical side of security, what can be done about the social threat?

Bob Marichak, account executive, Next Step Systems Integration LLC (www.nextstepsys.com), located in Scranton, offers some simple human suggestions to help foil socially engineered computer threats (Next Step Systems Integration LLC specializes in the integration and migration of hardware and software for end to end network data solutions for small and large businesses.):

Enforce a policy including:

* Restricting the number of permitted users on work stations;
* Having automatic password changes and instructing users on how to create hard-to-crack passwords;
* Educating users on what constitutes threatening e-mail, including:

1. Instructing users to delete e-mails that have unfamiliar or unknown senders.
2. Advising users not to follow links or call numbers from suspicious e-mail.
3. Looking up banks and other financial institutions directly through other known legitimate means.

Many of these precepts are relatively easy to implement and can be very effective in hindering socially engineered attacks. When done in conjunction with known technical solutions, a business will have a much lower chance of being compromised.

By: Andrew Ohrman

NEPA Business Journal

One of the riskiest things employees can do is to download and set up peer-to-peer networks for free downloading of copyrighted music, videos, and games.

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are special networks designed to share data. A P2P network can be as simple as two PCs connected by a simple wire, or as complex as thousands of computers connected across vast wired and wireless networks spanning the Internet.

The main goal with a P2P network is the sharing of some, or all, of the data on a computer’s hard drive, which is legal, in and of itself.

There are many ways and reason for setting up a P2P network. Often businesses and individuals have legitimate needs for file-sharing, like word processing or spread sheets. In recent years, P2P networks have appeared, spanning the Internet for less wholesome purposes like swapping copyrighted material, including music, movies, and games.

The half-baked thinking of many implementers of P2P networks is that if it’s legal to share part of their computer with others, then it’s also fine to actively share and swap any file, even copyrighted material.

Organizations like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) don’t take kindly to expensively produced songs being ripped from CDs and made available to large groups of music lovers for free. Nor does the Software Publishers Association, which represents companies like Microsoft and Adobe.

According to Bob Marichak, account executive for Next Step Systems Integration (www.nextstepsys.com) located in Scranton, “It’s one thing to make one backup copy of a piece of music or software, it’s something quite different and 100-percent illegal to make copyrighted music, movies and computer software easily available to tens of thousands of others through a broad, worldwide P2P network. And if employees are doing this at work, even if the employer doesn’t know it, the employer can be in for some real trouble.”

The list of trouble or problems can be long: Virus infections, spyware infections, hindered productivity (employees playing games instead of working), losing the supporting an ISP (Internet Service Provider) (which means losing Internet access and all e-mail correspondence and having to find a new provider and then changing to new e-mail addresses).

The biggest trouble of all is serious -vigorous prosecution from the entertainment and software industry.
So what can businesses do to stay out of trouble? Marichak and his company, Next Step, have a lot of experience in this area and have some valuable tips (see box):

First, be aware of P2P software, which is readily available on the Internet.

Second, inform your employees with official policies that prohibit use of and participation in this sort of file-sharing.

Third, implement technologies that will prevent file-sharing, including special network software that doesn’t let users install anything on their desktop, closing specific communication “ports” on computers to prevent rogue connections with a P2P network, software that can inspect “packets” of data flowing in and out of a computer to determine P2P networking activity, and special filtering software like “IPCop” that stop undesirable P2P networking activities on large and small networks.

For small networks or individual computers, configure the built-in fire walls that often come with computers.

By: Andrew Ohrman

NEPA Business Journal

The spam epidemic has a few familiar themes that bombard your inbox: phone cards, cable descramblers, vacation prizes, easy credit, easy weight loss, free vacations, free Girlz. Inkjet cartridges and black-market Viagra, get-rich-quick schemes and every possible form of pornography. The crush of these messages on the world’s networks is now numbered in billions per day.

Spam is not just a nuisance. It absorbs bandwidth and overwhelms Internet service providers. ”Spam has become the organized crime of the Internet,” said Barry Shein, president of the World, one of the original Internet service providers. ”Most people see it as a private mailbox problem. But more and more it’s becoming a systems and engineering and networking problem.”

Below are some tips that can help you from being spammed:

• Use an alternate email address for web registrations and commercial email lists.
• When forwarding emails, make sure you Blind Carbon Copy your other recipients and always remove the existing headers in a forwarding email
• Disguise any email addresses on your web page. Ex: Remove the @ sign with <at>. By doing this you effectively prevent automated software programs that scan hundreds of thousands of web pages for spammable emails from having access to it.
• Use a form for feedback on your web page instead of an email address
• Spam-Protect your organization’s email list archives, and get all the email lists you post messages to to do this.
• Use Spam Filtering Software. Just remember, this solution is not 100% accurate, although it will help curb the amount of spam in your inbox.
• Set up Temporary Email Accounts and Mail Aliases
• Avoid using a common first name as an email address
• If you need further clarification on our tips, or assistance with spam issues, please don’t hesitate to call. Whether you are our network support client, web client or both, we value your business. We know you depend on technology to operate your business and we want nothing more than to see you operate successfully.