Internet Security--A Plan of Attack

"In many cases, the mechanisms of the attack are pretty simple," observes Jack Danahy, president of Waltham, MA-based Information Protection Technologies, which produces system security products (they are found on the Web at iprotechnologies.com). "The news reports don't represent accurately the fact that these attacks are not the work of geniuses, but rather the simple execution of some well-known tool by what is probably some disenfranchised adolescent."