Peer-to-Peer Network Security

Written by Tim Conneally

There’s an abundance of unauthorized files trafficking P2P networks, and that’s not news to anyone. Deciding whom to blame could become big news.

Literally millions of unauthorized documents — some of them personal, easily too many of them classified — have made their way freely through P2P networks, many of them without any malicious user whatsoever even requesting or copying them. Sometimes, literally, they just show up. If the problem isn’t P2P itself but the people using it, then shouldn’t the users of P2P services be given warnings? That’s the question being tackled by the US House of Representatives today.

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June 12, 2007 (Computerworld)

It’s not just the Recording Industry Association of America that people need to worry about when downloading music from P2P networks. A surprisingly high number of consumers sharing music and other files on peer-to-peer systems are inadvertently exposing all sorts of bank account and similar personal information on their computers to criminals lurking on the networks to harvest data. And it’s not just users at home who are exposing information about themselves; so are a large number of employees within banks, as well as banks’ contractors and suppliers.

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