Monday, April 28, 2014

Preventing Data Breaches and Hacking

First it was Sony, then it was Target - two major companies hacked and millions of consumers alarmed about the theft of their personal information, passwords, and credit card numbers. Now, it's the Internet at large -- or at least a good portion of it -- thanks to the so-called Heartbleed bug which involves a vulnerability in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library. If data breaches and hacking can happen to the likes of Sony and Target, it can happen to virtually any business. Now that the Heartbleed bug has been exposed, preventing data breaches and hacking is on everyone's mind.

Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/article/preventing-data-breaches-and-hacking.

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