There 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.
