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Practice Tip: <B>Protecting Against Digital Spies</b>

As the legal industry leverages IT to deliver enhanced services and improve overall business operations, Internet threats are increasing. According to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, one of the most significant threats today is malicious code that exposes confidential data such as passwords, decryption keys, keystrokes and more. Moreover, this malicious code is entering businesses from a widening array of sources. One of the most common delivery vehicles is spyware. According to security experts, millions of PCs in homes and businesses across the world are already infested with spyware. Yet, for all its ubiquity, it remains a relatively misunderstood threat.

11 minute read March 30, 2004 at 09:14 AM
By
Kelly Martin
Practice Tip: <B>Protecting Against Digital Spies</b>

Information technology has slowly changed the practice of law. It started with word processing, which provided lawyers a much more efficient tool for producing a written product. Then came computer networking, document scanners, the Internet and e-mail.

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