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To: marcher who wrote (178)	2/20/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: j.allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 253

I have an account with E trade last week they botched executing a trade, their web site was down,no one was answering their phones, they wouldn't respond by email,do they really consider themselves in business? "Some day we'll all invest this way" what a crock, I'm going to transfer my account, any recommendations? Someone that can at least answer their phones.

To: marcher who wrote (178)	3/5/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: marcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 253

From Information Week: Study: Security Threats From Outside On The Rise Businesses are now just as likely to get hit from the outside by a security attack as from within their own firewall, according to the results of the Computer Security Institute's annual "Computer Crime and Security" survey. For the third year in a row, system penetration from outside the company rose, with 57% of the 521 respondents reporting assaults on their Internet connections. That number, driven by the growth of Internet and extranet applications and the disappearance of an enterprise border, is up from 37% the previous year. "The old rule that we would see 80% of the penetration coming from the inside, 20% from the outside, is outmoded," says Richard Power, editorial director for the institute. "This isn't to say the threat from the inside has diminished -- it hasn't. It is just showing that the threat from outside is now co-equal to it." The news from this study of security professionals wasn't all bad. Firewall deployments, security technology implementations, and overall awareness are growing. The overwhelming majority of the respondents hit by an intrusion in the last 12 months filled in known holes to keep hackers at bay. Unfortunately, the intrusions were probably expensive. Of the 31% of survey respondents able to quantify financial losses due to a breech, the average cost carried a tab of $1.8 million. -- Amy K. Larsen