Cybercrime: Even Microsoft Is Vulnerable

Questions:

1. Some people think that Microsoft downplayed the seriousness of the break-in. What would be the motivation for such a strategy?

answer: From this Motivation and pressure of the strategy happen, it will help the Microsft to awaken IT securities and experts and making their anti force to put into pressure.

2. Why would Microsoft have allowed the attackers access to their network and systems for several days after first detecting the break-in?

answer: The Microsoft had allowed the attackers to access to their network, because when they detect it, they believe that the hackers can able only to view but not to modify, source code of several major products. They assured that this attack was not as serious as it originally feared.

3. Imagine that you are in charge of recommending a new and improved security measures for Microsoft. What recommendations would you make? How would you justify the costs of implementing your ideas?

answer: It must not be that they will just only measure the attack from the perpetrators, but making also their defense anti-viruses must be keep on upgrading always, because attackers or perpetrators is always upgrading. And putting some firewalls in each computers must be applied also, not just in a companies employees computers, but also in their homes.