Afraid of being hacked or cyber-compromised
in some other way?
If you want to be very afraid, take a look at the online sites that track the daily
flows of global cyber attacks in real time (similar to a real-time map of
global airline routes in the good old days when planes actually flew).
For example, threatmap.checkpoint.com
currently logs around 30 million attempted attacks a day, with the country
locations of the offending and receiving parties changing dynamically from
minute to minute.
Usually, the good guys thwart the attacks.
But when the ‘black hats’ win over the ‘white hats’ in the constant game of
cat-and-mouse, chaos abounds.
The attacks highlight the importance of
constant vigilance on the part of government and companies, as well as
individuals who remarkably are still vulnerable to the entreaties of
disenfranchised Nigerian princesses.
With this week being Australian Cyber Week, what
better time to enforce the message?
The silver lining to the dark threats is that
cyber crime prevention has become a billion dollar industry – and a thriving
ASX sector covering high-level encryption work for sensitive government bodies
to blocking…
