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This will happen again and again because governments in developing countries don't understand importance of IT security, where people with no qualifications (of
by seaghost 7y ago
This will happen again and again because governments in developing countries don't understand importance of IT security, where people with no qualifications (often nepotism) works on protecting very important data. Not to mention that someone who is qualified to work there is often working in private sector for 3 to 5 times bigger salary due to govt. regulations on public sector salaries.
- DrJokepu 7y agoDeveloping countries lol. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/customs-and-border-protection-data-breach-license-plates-leaked/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/17/politics/customs-and-border-p...
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoHint: it’s not binary.
- ownagefool 7y agoYeah, the two most common forms of cyber security I've came across are: a) Don't know much, don't care much, don't really do much; or b) Super paranoid that we're going to need really expensive consultants and buy really expensive products, and do lots of manual because automation is insecure, need to be on-prem, basically 10-15 years behind. Neither really patch servers, but often the guys that care are so behind the times they're actually worse.
- domnomnom 7y agoGranted, he said very important data.
- klipt 7y agoIn the US, enough major insurers and credit bureaus have been hacked that I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of US SSNs have already been compromised...
- rectang 7y agoNearly everyone save for a tiny minority overestimates what can reasonably be kept safe. A good rule of thumb is that if the data exists, it will leak.
- ryanlol 7y ago> I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of US SSNs have already been compromised... We’re way past that, there have been multiple individual incidents that have exposed a majority of US SSNs.
- yyyk 7y ago"governments in developing countries" Like the US, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...