[icernet] Face Cyber Wrath In Return For A Pink Slip

[Arul Selvan]

  Not such a long time back, cyberspace was inhabited with junkies but 
now thugs, abusers and maniacs are crawling on the superhighway waiting 
to snare unsuspecting victims. Apart from unprincipled business rivals, 
the villainous characters could be the employee you sacked last month or 
worse, the byte from a disgruntled employee in the next cubicle. Their 
tools range from pornographic e-mails, cookie poisoning, to web defacement.

The attacks range from obscene, threatening and defamatory e-mails to 
computer-aided sabotage, source code thefts, data theft, unauthorised 
access and alteration of data, targeted virus attack, the list is 
growing. According to a study Computer Crime and Abuse Report (India) 
2002-02, conducted by the computer emergency response team of the Asian 
School of Cyber Laws, a company is more likely to be cyber-attacked by a 
former employee rather than a business rival.

Source:
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=29343