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Identity theft was the most prevalent form of fraud reported, representing 42 percent of all complaints.
The report does not attempt to identify how thieves obtained the data needed to steal more than 200,000 consumers’ identities, but security holes and data leaks remained a grim e-commerce reality in 2003.
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But now software engineers at Icosystem in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a program that can predict what is coming next by “evolving” future hacker and virus attacks based on information from known ones.
The idea would be to generate these novel attack strategies centrally, then remotely update the intrusion-detection software protecting PCs and networks around the world. It works by mutating the short programs or “scripts” that hackers use to invade computers or which they plant on them for later activation. The result is artificially created hacking routines that security systems could be taught to recognise, allowing them to defend networks against previously unseen attacks.
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Introducing a new product or service, adding a new channel partner, or targeting a new customer segment–any of these can present unforeseen costs, complexities, and delays in a business that runs enterprise applications. The expense and difficulty can be so great that some companies abandon new business initiatives rather than attempt one more change to their enterprise applications.
The good news is that just as the limitations of the current generation of IT architectures are becoming painfully apparent, new methods of organizing technology resources are appearing. IT is on the verge of a shift to a new generation of “service oriented” architectures that promise to go a long way toward reducing, if not removing, current obstacles to new operational initiatives.
Service-oriented architectures will enable companies to introduce new business practices and processes more rapidly and at lower cost. Companies that follow suit will break free from the constraints of today’s architectures and become capable of leveraging IT–mostly for the first time–to gain strategic advantage.
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Stuart Okin, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft UK, said that the cost of supporting earlier Microsoft platforms has gone up because of the expense in applying security updates.
But if customers invest to modernise their systems and move on XP and Windows Server 2003 then their support costs will eventually fall to a level lower than they ever had with earlier versions of Windows, according to Okin. Okin said any decision to move operating system platform should based on a solid business case; security is only one of the elements to be considered.
Windows Servers 2003 comes with many services turned off by default to the impact of any security vulnerability tends to be less serious on that platform. Security depends more on people and process than OS platform but upgrading technology can improve an organisation’s security stance.
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