Fri 19 Feb 2010
Data breaches across a range of industries continue to compromise companies’ cyber defense systems and data and the personal information of their customers. This week’s headline news that more than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies around the world have been hacked over the last 18 months is a reminder of this growing exposure. Perhaps even more concerning, in a February 18 Wall Street Journal article security firm NetWitness says that the hacking operation is still running and it isn’t yet clear to what extent it has been contained. The attack comes just a month after reports that the computer networks at Google and around 30 other U.S. corporations had been compromised. Latest reports suggest those attacks have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China. Javelin Research & Strategy’s recently released 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report noted that personal identification most likely to […]
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