Possible threats from malefactors


Damage which information technologies can bring at their wrong application, we shall compare to damage from real operations: financial losses in the form of refusal of potential and existing clients of work with the company because of the hacker attacks led inaccessibility of information resources or outflow of the confidential information; material losses in the form of theft of technological secrets at interception of e-mail, infringements in work a web-sites, not authorized penetration on a server where information resources are placed.

Today, when the commodity market is overflown, and the offer exceeds demand in tens times when businessmen, bankers, businessmen continually collide(face) that unscrpulous competitors by all means try to catch the information on their partner communications(connections) when in pre-election race or other purposes means for gathering the compromising evidence are used, when there is no 100 % of a guarantee of that someone does not intercept e-mail, questions of protection of the information (and, finally, these are questions of own safety), get the most actual character.

What can the malefactor make? It(he) can establish(install) on a server a nocuous software, for example the program of a post spam or something similar. Consequences can appear pitiable for the owner of a site.

Certainly, the most important threat is an outflow of the confidential information. In case of with a virtual hosting, at wrong adjustment(option) of access to a server, the malefactor can get access to all sites being on the given server. Thus, because of whose that mistakes(errors) can suffer sites, without mistakes(errors) in system of safety.