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Re: fringe: Public, private sectors at odds over cyber security
From: "Domonick T. Weaver" <dweaver81 () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:13:35 -0400
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 06:07:27 security curmudgeon wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-security26-2008aug26,0,2021258.story By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 26, 2008 Three very big and very different computer security breaches that have dominated recent headlines did more than show how badly the Internet needs major repairs. They also exposed the huge rift between corporate America and the federal government over who should fix it, cyber-security experts say. In the last few months, law enforcement officials cracked an international ring that tapped customer databases and trafficked in tens of millions of credit card numbers; a researcher uncovered a major flaw that permits hackers to steer some Web surfers to fake versions of popular websites filled with malicious software; and computer assaults, which some researchers said they had traced back to Russia's state-run telecommunications firms, crippled websites belonging to the country of Georgia. Yet the episodes did little to boost cyber security higher on the agendas of the federal government or the two major presidential candidates. "Nothing is happening," said Jerry Dixon, the former director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security. "This has got to be in the top five national security priorities." Dixon is just one of hundreds of technology executives and experts who have been saying for years that Washington needs to do much more to protect consumers, businesses and the government itself from attacks by criminal hackers and those supported by rival nations. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
I completely concur with your opinion. I work for a post-secondary school system as a contractor for a commercial computer corporation as a technician. To save myself frombecoming a victim, I keep a steady eye on my credit and banking reports. But even still, our network isn't even safe. no where is. Until the world government steps into action to make the Net a free AND safe environment, these instances will continue. It seems as if now, instead of learning from our mistakes, we are just look past them to go for the next "big thing"...YouTUBE, Live Search and GoogleEarth, etc, etc. But no one has made the real breakthroughs. How can we better secure our systems? What are we doing that's making us naked in cyberspace? And how can we make it easier for the common user to protect themselves out there? All of us, as members of the IT world, need to understand that the only way we can stop this madness is by increase our digital security. Not by increasing, or even capping, bandwidth. We just need to get a grip on the reality. I bet if we put all these data breach in the public eye long enough, people will start to ask questions...and lots of them. -- "Proper planning prevents poor performance." - Ret. Sgt 1st class Richard Weaver _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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