Will a $6.7 million cyber heist spur a move toward fixing the Internet?
January 17, 2012
A remarkably lucrative $6.7 million cyber bank heist of South Africa's state-owned Postbank provides an outstanding case study of just why 2011 was the year of the cyber criminal: The insecurity of the Internet, coupled by organizations' failure to embrace sufficient security practices, make cyber crimes too high-value and low-risk for bad guys to resist.
Will a $6.7 million cyber heist spur a move toward fixing the Internet?