October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month and the big question is: How will you celebrate? The Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance want you to learn to keep you safe online. According to their press release, "only 40% of Americans have had any formal security type online or safety training."
Really? This number seems quite high. A brief study and unscientific our office has shown that no one here could not remember ever attending a sort of "safety training or online safety" but we all know not to click on unknown attachments, downloading strange program LimeWire, or pay attention to web pages that warn us that our computers are infected. And we all have internet security software installed.
The federal government has a direct interest in cyber security because infected bot computers were used to launch denial of service on government websites.
As a digital society based on the Internet for almost all financial services to supply chain management to a smarter electrical grid, to name a few, the ability to America to strengthen the security of the Internet is critical to the nation's economic success, the government's ability to provide essential services, and access for all Americans to information.
The objective of NCSAM is to make people aware that infected PCs are not only potentially harmful to bank accounts, they are also dangerous for us on a larger scale. In addition, a DoS attack can completely knock Twitter, and Senator McCain likes to Twitter.