In 2011 there were nonstop waves of hacking, malware, and spear-phishing
attacks that succeeded in exploiting well-known businesses, including RSA and
Sony. The article I chose is called "10 Security Trends to Watch in
2012" and written by Mathew J. Schwartz. Throughout the article, I learned
that according to the 2011 data breach investigations report from Verizon, for
example, the number of attacks launched
online against businesses between 2005 and 2010 increased by a factor of five.
A good way for business' to keep their mobile devices safe could be to take a more rigorous approach to securing mobile devices,
including tracking them when they go missing, and ensuring that remote-wipe
capabilities are in place should it be too difficult or expensive to recover
the devices. All social-engineering attacks succeed based not on
technological sophistication, but rather by fooling users. It costs little to
send someone an email that redirects them to a fake PayPal website, which
tricks them into entering their actual PayPal username and password, which is
then passed to attackers. Today, all 50 states effectively require that
businesses notify their customers when their personal information has been
potentially exposed. But different notification requirements, for example, for medical records means that although many breaches might be disclosed to
government watchdogs, they might never be fully disclosed publicly. Germany
enacted a federal data-breach notification law in 2010, and other European
countries have expressed interest. Meanwhile, Canada is weighing changes to its
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that
would make data breach disclosures mandatory for that country's businesses.
Accordingly, social engineering attacks aren't going away. Furthermore, with
800 million people now registered on Facebook, and 175 million on Twitter,
expect attackers to spend more time targeting social networks. To wrap this up, I feel that not only as a
country, but the whole world should take a close look at this and change what
we’ve been doing to be more prepared if anything like this was to happen to
your company.
Fredrick,
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts on internet hacking are very interesting I did not know that it was that serious to the point it would be top 10 trends to watch in 2012. I am a Facebook and Twitter user myself and that’s scary to know there’s hackers’ out there looking for people like us to hack. People never really change their privacy settings on either social network until it happens to them. I see spam all the time popping up on my news feed of peoples’ facebooks getting hacked. It just goes to show you can’t trust anyone these days. It also seems like these hackers are getting smarter too. Always finding ways to get around your privacy settings just to mess with your personal information and even can steal your identity. Overall your thoughts about the article are good. Nice picture by the way.
Fredrick,
ReplyDeleteI too read this article and I like the view that you have taken on the article. Unlike you however, I found the part about more and more mobile phones actually being stolen than hacked to be the most interesting point in the article. This is partially due to the fact that in today's day and age more and more people have smart phones that hold nearly all the information these people may need. Everything from financial information to credit card accounts and social media accounts, that can all get in the hands of the wrong person by simply taking your eyes off of your phone for a split second.
My name is not Fredrick.
ReplyDelete-thanks