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The New Criterion’s Tim Boreham takes a look at the ASX stocks protecting organisations from the online hackers and hucksters.
By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion
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 30m 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…
