As more and more people use Internet for pleasure, more and more criminals use it to break into remote computers to steal information, plant viruses, or simply change user names and passwords. In any case, many online computer networks are vulnerable to outside hacker attacks. This can target home computers, as well as corporate networks (Koerner 20). Most of the time intrusions occur because security is low and not well maintained due to incompetent security administrators (…showed first 75 words of 965 total…

…showed last 75 words of 965 total…monitoring of logs (De Angelis 90), analyzing connections made can all play an important role in keeping private data private. As long as there are banks, there will be bank robbers. As long as there are cars, there will be carjackers. And As long as there are computers, there will be hackers. As security measures become more effective, so will the techniques hackers utilize. This will keep online computer networks vulnerable to more outside hacker attacks.