Legislation, Lithuania, Technology

Gintautas Svedas, head of the company SATi specializing in IT security area, thinks that currently the number of real breaks in is much higher. "Serious cyber criminals always strive to remain unnoticed and simply want to secretly use the data from the victim"s computer as well as to control it," Svedas claims.

It is thought that currently major part of companies" computers and internet pages are infected with Trojans.

Not only internet portals, but also files servers, databases and simple computers are under the magnifying glass of hackers. Cyber criminals manage to extract the data of clients and employees, order goods in the name of other persons and companies on-line, appropriate money from bank accounts and send spam via broken into e-mail servers.

Drafted law regulating security of networks is being considered in Lithuania for three years. It is expected that it would solve many problems related to the protection of information systems, investigation and prevention of incidents.

It has been noted that during the cyber attacks in Lithuania those networks of state institutions were damaged during the cyber attacks in Lithuania that had the largest security gabs. The State Security Department thinks that there is threat that similar attacks could repeat, because in future such threat in the world will only increase.

According to the data presented by the Connection Regulation Service (RRT), cyber criminals damaged the operation of over 300 Lithuanian internet portals. Last spring cyber attacks were performed in Estonia.