25 The current state of computer security
Wednesday 29th November, 2006
The Security Absurdity website is still around, but none of the links in the article seem to work.
Rob. April 2015.
- Security Absurdity.com > Security Absurdity; The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security
- Community Comments & Feedback to Security Absurdity Article
The first link above is a very interesting and insightful article about the current state of computer security. I thoroughly advise anyone who uses a computer, whether you are an individual PC user or the IT director of a company, to read this article.
The article assesses the risks, covering spyware, phishing, trojans, viruses, worms, rootkits, spam, botnets, web vulnerabilities, denial-of-service attacks, active-x weaknesses, passwords, patch management, wireless networks, internal attacks, and more.
There is then an analysis of why these problems exist.
The second link above is a follow-up article continues on the same theme, but focuses more on possible solutions.