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The greatest threats to the security, privacy, and reliability of computer networks and other related information systems in general are cybercrimes committed by cybercriminals, but most importantly hackers. Judging by the damage caused by past cybercriminal and hacker attacks to computer networks in businesses, governments, and individuals, resulting in inconvenience and loss of productivity and credibility, one cannot fail to see that there is a growing community demand to software and hardware companies to create more secure products that can be used to identify threats and vulnerabilities, to fix problems, and to deliver security solutions.
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Kizza, J.M. (2017). Cyber Crimes and Hackers. In: Guide to Computer Network Security. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55606-2_5
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