INTERNET SECURITY IN LIGHT OF EDWARD SNOWDEN'S REVELATIONS

Zoran Čekerevac, Zdenek Dvorak, Petar Čekerevac

Abstract


Modern communication and modern business are linked to the massive use of the Internet and mobile communications. However, use of Internet and mobile communications can compromise the integrity and confidentiality of data during both their transmission and their storage. Attackers can be a single hacker, but also the highest government institutions. Remarkably rapid development of IT allows more efficient data protection, but also gives new opportunities for eavesdropping and spying. "Excess" of computing capacities on the attackers' side enables them to cover virtually all Internet users, including individuals. Even in situations with the latest protection there are ways to access data unnoticed. The topic becomes more significant when one considers the recent events related to an affair with wiretapping of internet posts by the NSA, which Edward Snowden revealed in The Guardian in June 2013. The publication of these secrets launched a flood of discussions that have confirmed that many (if not all) countries tapped telecommunication channels, and that the NSA only had the "misfortune" to be discovered first. In addition to collecting data from e-mails, of particular interest are flows of financial transactions. This information has contributed that this problem came to the focus of attention and that new rules and regulations will be created. This paper discusses the current state of the Internet business, and in paricular the protection of electronic mails.


Keywords


Internet, credit card, mobile communications, Edward Snowden, Project Muscular, Windstop, Tempora, Patriot Act

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