Promiscuous Browsing

Feb 15, 2000 -- You gotta love a Web site with this headline:

Web Users Should Not Engage in Promiscuous Browsing

I found it while browsing (promiscuously?) the CERT Coordination Center's site. I was disturbed by reports that Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon.com and Buy.com were taken down by malicious hacker attacks. The attacks rendered their Web sites inaccessible. (CNN.com, E*Trade, Datek and ZDNet reported similar attacks.)

Hackers can wreak system-wide havoc upon virtually any Web site, which is where CERT comes in. The center studies Internet security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publishes a variety of security alerts, researches security and survivability in wide-area-networked computing, and develops information to help you improve security at your site.

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Mary A. Sicard is president of i-Genuity, the Click-Here Strategy and Services firm in Augusta, Georgia.

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