internet security

A well placed saboteur or spy could do some damage inside the companies that keep the Internet's secured traffic moving; the FBI spent 18 months investigating a guy they say gave copies of customer receipts to a "foreign country."

According to Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft Corp., the Internet has had a positive impact on many, many aspects of our society, but greater global connectivity combined with the increasingly valuable information stored online has resulted in a new array of threats and an increase in cybercrime.