Security
Interestingly enough this news article the feel that “experts estimate that more than 31 percent of Internet Web sites are compromised” and attempts can be traced to malicious software, or malware, contracted from web sites, and emails. The end result almost certainly leads to some or other type of cybercrime.
An awareness by users of the internet is a priority and no machine or device that has access to the internet , should be without at less a properly configured firewall and a proper ACL ( access control list. ) However monitoring is required to ascertain the effectiveness of your security policy. Without proper monitoring, even the best effort will be compromised at some stage.
Internet security is an ongoing process, of changing and updating of policies and procedures.
An interesting conclusion we have drawn from reviewing some of the current injection attempts tried on our web servers is : An attack from an IP or host, on the internet is more than likely caused by a remote controlled bot, many of these bots, not only will spam, they are capable of DOS attacks. Thus blocking or limiting there access, is important.
The slow reaction to complaints to service providers and hosts, or their blatant ignoring the problem, is creating an even greater need to control access from those that do not react to fix their problem.