Midterm Question #3




Internet if properly maximized can be used as a medium to the advantage of the company. However, risks and threats are there. Thus, research the following:




1. Identify the possible risks and threats (eg. virus) that can potentially attack a company with internet connection.




Ans.


One of the most talked about effects of a virus attack is the damage it can do to a company’s data. Many viruses are capable of wiping hard disks or corrupting the records held on a machine. Worse still are those viruses known as ‘data diddlers’, which subtly alter the figures in a spreadsheet or words within a document. Because the changes they make are not immediately obvious it can be weeks or even months before anyone notices that something is amiss. By that time the damage can be impossible to undo as back-ups are corrupted as well. That said, if a company does fall foul of a virus that simply eliminates data, backups can often be used to restore the lost information.




http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Virus--attacks/


Mark Ian Menorias


2. Case research and analysis:

2.a Identify one company that had experienced an attacked from the internet.

Ans.

Lawyer Who Sued Company CEO is Target of Claimed Cyber-Attack Campaign
Posted Jan 27, 2009, 08:55 pm CDT By Martha Neil

In nearly 20 years as a trial lawyer, Keith Fink has encountered plenty of hardball litigation tactics. But the cyber attacks he has suffered since he began representing former employees of American Apparel in litigation against the company are unique.

"I've never experienced it, I don't know any lawyer that's experienced it, and I'm sure I'm never going to experience it again in my career," he tells ABAJournal.com.

In an apparent effort to discourage and discredit Fink, company employees have launched an Internet attack on his character, as the New York Post reports it has documented in internal American Apparel e-mails.

In an article last week, the newspaper details the cyber campaign it claims the company has launched against Fink, who who has filed multiple lawsuits against American Apparel and its chief executive, Dov Charney, on behalf of various former employees: "According to internal e-mails allegedly written by American Apparel staff and obtained by the Post, company officials are buying Web ads and feeding and building sites that allege a litany of malfeasance by the Los Angeles-based lawyer."

Among the efforts, the Post says, was text inserted into a Wikipedia entry about Fink. In it, as of mid-January, he was described as an "ambulance chaser" and worse. The newspaper also says that at least one website apparently was set up anonymously for the purpose of discrediting Fink, according to the internal American Apparel e-mails.



http://abajournal.com/news/lawyer_who_sued_company_ceo_is_target_of_claimed_cyber-attack_campaign/

Mark Ian Menorias


2.b Describe the attack.

Ans.

The effects of a computer virus is loss of information or your computer will shut down or your computer might just break and you will need one depending on the type of virus you have so becareful on what you download or open.
Mark Ian Menorias