Cyber Security: How extensive is safe?

The world of the internet is getting increasingly more unsafe everyday. Each day there are more threats being made that can bypass antivirus software and firewalls. These threats take shape in malware, malicious software that can take shape of well-known threats such as viruses, Trojan horses, and key-loggers. In the early 80s, cyber threats were nearly non-existent, considering that threats often were a result of internal affairs of industrial systems companies. External threats during that time frame was approximately a third of all accounted threats during that time period.



Another element to note is that poor design in software can also result in horrific security breaches. Mismanagement of system resources in a application's programming can also be vulnerable to the abuses of malicious parties that wish to inflict harm on other computers.



Fast forwards another twenty years, thanks to the internet (and to no surprise), external threats increased exponentially for industrial and operating systems world wide, accounting for nearly eighty percent of all threats. During this transitional period, numerous small companies have arisen to produce software that defend against malware. However, hackers are continually designing malware that can easily bypass anti-virus software and wreck havoc on an unsuspecting operating system.

Often times the best means to avoid infection is to be cognizant of links one clicks that belong to any suspicious looking advertisements, or wander into websites with suspicious URLs.

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