The First Country in Cyber War is “Arming” its Computer Users
Story byToivo Tänavsuu
Journalist and blogger Toivo Tänavsuu is from Estonia and just released his new business, IT and innovations weblog about “enterprises, roar(show all)Journalist and blogger Toivo Tänavsuu is from Estonia and just released his new business, IT and innovations weblog about “enterprises, roaring like tigers”,TigerPrises.com. He shares some of his best stories on The Next Web.
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“I am a pedophile! How about you?”
Actors telling real stories are used to get the lessons across. For example, there’s a guy who says that he was made a pedophile inadvertently. He used short easy-to-memorize password (his wife’s name) for many different Internet applications. When suddenly finding that someone had guessed the password and uploaded nasty porn images into his weblog. (Take a look athis YouTube video, the poster below is saying “I am a pedophile! How about you?”)
“I am a thief! How about you?”
Or there’s a woman claiming that she had made a thief against her will. She clicked on an unknown link and apparently a virus downloaded into her computer. So her computer was used to steal credit card data of other people. And now she has become a suspect of serious crime. (YouTube video, the poster above is saying “I am a thief! How about you?”)
Member of an international gang
Another woman received an e-mail saying that she should update her Internet banking passwords immediately or they will expire. For doing that she was asked to fill in her existing passwords and sent them to “the bank”. She ended up sending her passwords to strangers, who used her bank account for transferring stolen money. So without knowing it, she became member of a international thief gang. (YouTube video)
CERT gives many different hints to avoid such unpleasantness. Hillar Aarelaid says that the days where viruses only harmed files are over. Today criminals are infecting people’s computers to take control over them and use them for criminal purposes, while remaining undetected.
If you understand Estonian, take a look at how Estonia educates its people, by clickinghere.
