SEAS Information Security Tips You may feel like "nothing I have
on my computer is worth protecting, and they wouldn't bother
with me anyway." But the truth is that a vulnerable computer can
be the starting point for other attacks on our network. A hacker
may not be interested in your computer specifically but rather
may hijack your computer for use in remote proxy attacks such as
a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), thereby becoming a
threat to someone else's computer. Most attacks come from
automated cracking programs which simply try to break into every
machine on the Internet. When they break into one computer, they
copy themselves to that machine so that it can try to break into
yet more machines. So no one is choosing to break into your
machine specifically, but your machine needs to be secure for
the welfare of other computers on the network. Below are some
basic concepts and practices that will not only protect you and
your data, but the whole Penn computing community. As an Eniac
user, you are req