RECENT HACKS POSE LEGAL QUESTIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES, OTHERS, CYBERGUARD EXPERTS SAY.The Chief Technology Officer of Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. firm CyberGuard Corp. raised new concerns over the potential liability of universities, libraries and other organizations whose computers were unwittingly used for the recent denial-of-service hacking See hack and hacker. attacks on Yahoo!, Buy.com, Amazon.com, CNN.com and other Web sites. "Just as an individual may be liable for injuries caused by an unsecured Unsecured A loan or equity interest that is given without any guarantee of payment, performance, satisfaction or opportunity for return from the recipient. No property, interest or security is used as collateral in either a guarantee or a pledge. gun used to commit a crime, universities and other organizations may be liable for injuries caused by their unsecured computers that were used by hackers to commit these crimes," says Mike Wittig, CyberGuard's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "This wave of hacks prove that there are a lot of loaded, unsecured guns out there on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the ." The new type of hack raises new and interesting legal questions for the universities and other organizations whose unsecured computers are able to be cooped by the hackers. "Right now, ignorance may be a defense for organizations whose computers are being used without their knowledge, but that may not be the case forever," says CyberGuard's in-house council. |
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