- Introduction
- Statistics
- How Much of Your Life Is on the Internet?
- Who Owns Your Web Data?
- Who Owns Your Other Data?
- Web Site Procedures
- Email Security
- Internet Legal Issues
- Criminals and Other Stalkers
- Viruses, DDoS, and Internet Security
- Senator Unveils Net Privacy Bill
- What to Do About Internet Criminals?
- The Bigger Picture
- Sites
Viruses, DDoS, and Internet Security
Computer viruses are not new to the Web. The Internet worm in 1987 shut down a significant percentage of government sites. More recently, two computer viruses that propagated through email caused over a billion dollars in damage to companies whose email systems and networks were partially disabled by the rapidly propagating virus. As such, computer viruses represent a security risk to e-commerce, as they can disable the entire technical e-commerce infrastructure. The distributed denial-of-service attacks in early 2000 halted commerce at Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo. In a 1998 survey, over 80% of Fortune 5000 firms reported break-ins into corporate networks that caused at least $1 million in damage. Internet security is now a $14 billion dollar industry.