Saturday, February 20, 2010

The state of the net: no privacy, no security.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach.

...hackers gained access to a wide array of data at 2,411 companies, from credit-card transactions to intellectual property.

Note that Facebook has emerged as the number one risk to privacy and security. Our electronic immune system is way behind the new information-based lifestyle.



via CNet.

tags: control, security, problem, evolution, intellectual, property, integrity, information, computers, internet

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