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Data security gets worse as hackers go global
LockedThere is no way internet security is getting better. While we are all talking about how dumb we are for leaking the data from 26.5+ million veterans, hackers are simply going global. Large industries DO in fact exist overseas and we in the U.S. need to put more emphasis on protecting them just as much.
I just read an article about how a Japanese telecommunications company leaked personal information on 4 million customers. http://news.com.com/In+Japan%2C+4+million+broadband+users+face+data+leak/2110-1029_3-6083618.html?tag=nefd.hed
How can the claim that we are making strides in internet security when in the past 3 months we’ve had the largest banking security breach with Wachovia/Bank of America, largest debit card breach with CitiBank, the VA incident, and now this on an international level. To put it into perspective, just these 4 incidents involved over 35 million people.
The problem is that corporations don’t know how to protect their personal assets as well as they should. If they put just a little more emphasis on it who knows how many of these incidents could have been prevented. http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article16.htm
The U.S.’s population is minute compared to the rest of the world. If we don?t watch out, this could get extremely ugly around the rest of the world.