Friday, November 03, 2006

Information Security Consciousness in Malaysia

I recently ran a network scan on some of the local IP segments in Malaysia, the results are within my expectation, i.e. quite a number of broadband service subscribers in Malaysia doesn't realize about the risks of their computers being exploited in the Internet, or maybe they just not literate enough to have such awareness. I seen file servers that are exposed to the Internet and yet share out some folders that store critical information like daily transaction files, quotations, and even human resources payroll data files. What will happen if I'm one of those destructive people that just go in and wipe everything out? Voila, they better have a pretty good business continuation strategy. Also, one thing I noticed is that these machines usually infected by some dated viruses and trojan horses like NetBus and BO. O yes, I forgot to mention that gigabytes of porn materials and illegal software are found in these HDD.