“2012: The Year of Securing Websites?”
Posted November 28th, 2011
As posted to CircleID.com by Wout de Natris: ”In a seemingly never-ending row of news on hacks of websites now this one in which 2.3 million individual cases of privacy sensitive data were accessible through a leak in the websites of most public broadcasting stations in the Netherlands. To make the news more cheerful, the accessible data was, if compiled, sufficient to successfully steal a complete identity. What were thoughts that came to my mind after hearing this news on Friday?
Unbelief
The 8 o’clock news item ended with the soothing words that everything possible was being done to secure the websites. What?, I thought. After all the items in the past year on the public broadcast news on hacks, phishing, hacked companies and websites, you guys never bothered to check your own? Apparently this is a thought that doesn’t spring up in anyone’s mind till it’s too late. Or is it?”
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Tags: cybercrime
Posted in cybercrime by Kelly Hardy
