What is Privacy Protection and the Law?

Privacy protection

Approaches to privacy can, broadly, be divided into two categories: free market and consumer protection. In a free market approach, commercial entities are largely allowed to do what they wished, with the expectation that the consumers will choose to do the business with the corporations that respect the privacy to a desired degree. If some companies are not sufficiently respectful of privacy, they will lose market share. Such an approach may be limited by lack of competition in the market, by enterprises not offering privacy options favorable to the user, or by lack of information about actual privacy practices. Claims of privacy protection made by companies may be difficult for consumers to verify, except when they have already been violated.
In a consumer protection approach, in contrast, it is acknowledged that individuals may not have the time or knowledge to make informed choices, or may not have reasonable alternatives available. This approach advocates greater government definition and enforcement of privacy standards.

What is Computer privacy???

The quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others.

The state of being free from unsanctioned intrusion: a person's right to privacy.

The state of being concealed; secrecy.

Today, many people rely on computers to do homework, work, and create or store useful information. Therefore, it's important for the information to be stored and kept properly. It's also extremely important to protect computers from data loss, misuse and abuse. For example, businesses need to keep their information secure and shielded from hackers. Home users also need to ensure their credit card numbers are secure when participating in online transactions. A computer security risk is any action that could cause loss of information to software, data, processing incompatibilities or damage to computer hardware.

An intentional breach in computer security is known as a computer crime, which is slightly different from a cybercrime. A cybercrime is known as illegal acts based on the Internet and is one of the FBI's top priorities. There are several distinct categories for people that perpetrate cybercrimes, and they are: hacker, cracker, cyberterrorist, cyberextortionist, unethical employee, script kiddie and corporate spy. A hacker is defined as someone who accesses a computer or computer network unlawfully. They often claim that they do this to find leaks in the security of a network.

Who are the computer criminals and what are their objectives?

Computer criminals are also called cybercriminals. Their Obejectives are: hack a system,steal important datas and even installed a virus on your computer. Or they can also hack the government website, or they can even hack bank accounts and steal all the money.

Zero day attack!

Zero day attack, also known as a zero hour takes advantage of computer vulnarabilities that do not currently have a solution. Typically, a software company will discover a bug or problem with a piece of software after it has been released and will offer a patch-another piece of software meant to fix original issue. A zero day attack will take advantage of that problem before a patch has been created. It is named zero day because it occurs before the first day the vulnerability is known.

- For example, there was an zero day attacked on Nov. 09, 2006. It was a part of Windows called the XMLHTTP Activex Control. When an web browser pop up an infected web page in the internet explorer, it called the Activex Control, which would helpep the attacker to cause a buffer overflow. It may able the attackers to download spyware and steal data.

If i was hired an IT security consultant to fix the security problem of a manufacturing company with a budget of $1 million within 90 days. The first thing that im gonna do is to gather the information and data's about the illegal access of the hacker to the company's security. And then i would conduct an investigation about the hacking system being used by the hackers with the help of some person who is knowledgeble about hacking, have a brief discussion for the ways on how to block the used system and may also track down the hacker. If that will worked, it is time to take some action to look for the damage data systems in order to take some action on fixing it.