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police technological crimes unit said this kind of thing is becoming more commonplace everyday for a business these days your intellectual assets are likely more at risk than your physical assets he said we dont have statistics showing conclu sively that theres been any kind of migration from traditional crime to cyber crime but were certainly seeing it more frequently than we have in the past businesses offering goods for sale over the internet can be at risk imagine being hit with a denial of i service attack that ensures the servers are so inundated with bogus sales legit imate buyers cant access them its like thousands of people with no interest in buying anything jamming themselves inside the doors of a store detconst phil shrewsbury said the people who want to buy something cant get in most canadian businesses seem to be catching on to the fact cyber crime is a reality a recent ibm survey showed more than 62 per cent of businesses in the health care financial retail and manu facturing industries now believe cyber crime is more costly to them than phys ical crime like theft in most retail businesses a good percentage of the cyber crime police see is internal detconst shrewsbury said almost 70 per cent of participants in the ibm survey said they perceive threatsto corporate security come from inside the organization more often than not were definitely seeing more and more of the disgruntled employee thing detconst shrewsbury said before they might get into an argument and want to punch the boss out how were seeing where theyve damaged the server rendering it useless poking around and sharing sensitive informa tion or compromising the integrity ofa companys data virus protection firewalls and intru sion protection software which help avoid denial of service attacks are a must in protecting your business from cyber criminals from outside your four walls or within but lowtech solutions can be just as hackers turn office computer systems into crime scenes important as the hightech ones according to mike noble internet prod uct manager at markhams evron com puter systems corp which helps busi nesses set up new networks and protect existing ones most businesses have antivirus soft ware a lot have firewalls but its equally as important to have all the layers of protection in place he said that means paying attention to software and lower tech protection as well like educating employees about password protection and things like that the first step toward protecting your business is awareness said amit sahni evrons vicepresident of technical ser vices denial of service attacks can start with a simple email and no firewall or email filtering can help you if employ ees dont learn to avoid opening emails from sources they dont trust he said but it doesnt end there you need security at multiple lev els he said cyber crime rarely comes from just one source security cyber or otherwise just makes good business sense detrconst shrewsbury said a business would be remiss in its obligations to itself if it didnt take the necessary steps to protect itself he said home invasion suspects sought police need your help to apprehend three suspects following a home inva sion robbery in markham wednesday at about 845 pm three bandits barged into a canning court home holding the homes occupants at gun point while demanding cash and prop erty the victims were forced into the garage and tied up their son returned home during the robbery and was held at gunpoint the suspects fled in a dark van the victims were not injured in the incident the suspects are described as male east indian and fivefoot 10 inches tall tosix feettall and in their late teens with thin builds they were wearing dark toques and jackets and spoke in a punjabi dialect they were all carrying handguns you are reminded to keep doors and windows locked at all times always know who is at the door before you open your door and report suspicious vehicles and people if you are not comfortable answering the door dont make sure you have proper lighting and if you a robbery vic tim cooperate dont fight back and get a good description of the robbers anyone with information is asked to contact police at l ext 7873