Inviting trouble

15 January 2007

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Disgruntled former employees and ill-treated clients are responsible for 90 per cent of malicious attacks on corporate computer systems, according to a Manchester computer expert.

Lawrence Jones, managing director of Internet hosting business UKFast, warned that many of the region's businesses are still leaving themselves open to "denial of service" attacks - such as the flooding of websites with data, causing them to grind to a halt - as well as more sinister attempts by criminal networks to hijack their computer using "spyware".

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