Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  BillTriveni writes:
Most of these companies are bringing these problems on
themselves by keeping propriatary or secret information on
computers connected to the public internet. No computer should
be connected to the internet, or even an internal network,
unless it is absolutely vital to share its information with the
public. This is just common sense.  In my company, we have never
allowed outside electrical communications connections to any of
our business computers. We don't even allow internal network
connections between most of them. Accounting is isolated. Sales
is isolated. Engineering is isolated. If information must be
passed between these groups, it is done by hand. If information
needs to be exported or imported outside the company, that
requires higher level approval and passage of physical media
through physical security checkpoints.  This is just common
sense. Only an utter fool would trust information vital to his
business (or his nation) to public int