It's funny how things work. Earlier this week I was interviewing the team at Narus.
The company, an independent subsidiary of Boeing and more about
digital, less about massive bodies of steel, is a pioneer in
cybersecurity. Cybersecurity, the practices designed to protect
networks, computers, programs and data from attack or damage.
I
was asking the company's president, John Trobough, "As a consumer, why
should I care?" I mean, these big companies have money to throw at this
kind of stuff, so I'm sure they've figured it out. Besides, what do I
care if some chicken nugget-producing enterprise gets hacked? Or if some
big bucks mobile company has a security breech when a clever employee outsources his work and watches cat videos instead? Some of those videos are pretty good.
The very next day the world sustained what many touted as being the "biggest cyber attack in history."
It was, if fact, big. Mashable writes, "Kaspersky Labs, a leading security research group, called it 'one of the largest DDoS operations to date.'" It's origins were a conflict between Spamhaus, a European organization that keeps tabs on spammers and Cyberbunker, a Dutch hosting company accused of housing them. In the end, the attack severely affected the websites it was targeted at, and many Internet users in Europe and North America found the Internet suddenly slowed or ground to a halt.
On the whole, though, the global Internet as a whole was not impacted to the expected extent. You see, it's not necessarily a "massive," global cyber attack that we, as individuals should be concerned about. It's the potential smaller, personal ones. As a 2012 Norton Cybercrime report outlines, these consumer attacks are costing us.
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I
was asking the company's president, John Trobough, "As a consumer, why
should I care?" I mean, these big companies have money to throw at this
kind of stuff, so I'm sure they've figured it out. Besides, what do I
care if some chicken nugget-producing enterprise gets hacked? Or if some
big bucks mobile company has a security breech when a clever employee outsources his work and watches cat videos instead? Some of those videos are pretty good.The very next day the world sustained what many touted as being the "biggest cyber attack in history."
It was, if fact, big. Mashable writes, "Kaspersky Labs, a leading security research group, called it 'one of the largest DDoS operations to date.'" It's origins were a conflict between Spamhaus, a European organization that keeps tabs on spammers and Cyberbunker, a Dutch hosting company accused of housing them. In the end, the attack severely affected the websites it was targeted at, and many Internet users in Europe and North America found the Internet suddenly slowed or ground to a halt.
On the whole, though, the global Internet as a whole was not impacted to the expected extent. You see, it's not necessarily a "massive," global cyber attack that we, as individuals should be concerned about. It's the potential smaller, personal ones. As a 2012 Norton Cybercrime report outlines, these consumer attacks are costing us.
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