A Review on Internet Security from My E-Commerce blog

Today, I am going to do a review on a post on Internet Security from E-Commerce blog.
In Facts, there are a lot of harmful threats on internet.

Some of the example of the threats:
-Hacker
-Malicious Code
-Spam
-Denial-of-service attack (DoS)
-Distributed Denial-of-service attack (DDoS)
-Virus
-Worms
-Trojan horse

What is Internet Security?
Internet security is the prevention of unauthorized access to our computer via internet. The security is consisting of encryption and password. There are many of the security applications/software has been developed to protect our computer from the threats. I discovered an interesting post from the E-commerze.blogspot which teaches us how to prevent our blogger blog for being hacked and how to recover our hacked blog.

Refer to the post: John Cow.com was hacked! And unhacked !

Tips to prevent out computer from being hacked:
There are few tips is provided for us to prevent our blogger from being hacked, we need to keep our personal information private and avoid to use a same password for different registration. We should put a password which is much more complicated (Alpha-numeric password) because it has a higher security level compare to homogeneous password.

We shouldn’t use our identity card numbers, home address, nickname, year of birth and whatever number which can be found by others easily. Try to avoid using a public computer to access any important websites because the security system of a public computer is not good enough to protect our private information. The most important tips is that we need to install anti-virus software to protect our computer from being hacked. Antivirus systems can help us to block and detect potential threat.

What is Antivirus system?
Antivirus software is computer programs that attempt to detect, identify, eliminate or neutralize malicious software. Nowadays, antivirus serve as functions such as to combat a wide range of threats including virus, worms, Trojan horse, phishing attack, malware and etc. There are few steps is executed by antivirus software, it is scanning, identifying, eliminating, quarantine, and Delete potential threats.

There are few popular antivirus software in the market, such as:
-Norton Anti Virus
-Panda software
-AGV antivirus
-Nod32 antivirus
-Spyware Doctor (anti Spyware)

Next, we will focus on how to recover a hacked blogger or website.

How to recover a hacked blogger or website?
There are 7 steps in the recovery process:

1)Regain control to your website.
2)Restore the data from backup file in diskette, CD, hard disk and etc.
3)Restore missing information.
4)Scan for the vulnerability.
5)Delete, block, or eliminate the vulnerability.
6)Remove/delete all suspicious file and send a copy to the antivirus software provider.
7)Periodically monitor your website activity after the recovery.

In facts, the steps above only can help us to recover our website from minor attacks. For those websites which is hacked seriously by professional hackers, there are lesser chance for us to recover it because we do not have sufficient software and techniques to resolve the problems. Hence, we need to seek for help from computer/software/IT experts to help us to regain access to a hacked website.
Internet security is very important for us because we conduct a lot of activity via internet. A lot of private information is transmitting across internet and a high level security system is a necessity to protect the users.

References:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_security
- http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet%20Security
- Turban, E., King, D., McKay, J., Marshall, P., lee, J., & Viehland, D.(2008). Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective 2008 (International Edition). Upper Saddle River: Pearson-Education International.

Prepared by: Teo Muh Chow