Monday, April 23, 2012

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The article I chose to read was "10 security trends to watch in 2012" by Mathew J Schwartz. He goes into detail about how specifically companies are going to keep an eye on the top 10 security trends. The first one he discusses is how business says that breaches are now inevitable. companies such as Verizon say that hacking occurrences are up by a factor of five in a 5 year span. They are now worrying about when they will get hacked rather than if they will get attacked. Another topic he talks a lot about is Mobile devices and how they now have antitheft protection as well with malware on mobile phones. Everyone  has a mobile phone, and the android smartphone run through windows is a easy target to hack. Companies are now trying to put tracking systems into company mobile phones so they are easy to track if lost. Now that almost everyone is on a social network, and with this you can bet that social-engineering is going to occur. More and more hackers are going to try to hack into people accounts on sites, like Facebook and even Twitter. This containing personal information, can really hurt someone if fallen into the wrong hands.
All this talk has gotten me thinking that in a 5 year span, a lot of hacking has increased. Where will it be in 10 years from now? Who's going to create that ultra system to prevent any hacker from using information that isn't theirs? The biggest threat to the world is the hacking of cell phones. Everyone has a cellphone, more and more people are using mobile-pay where you pay your bills from your phone. Checks and the Postal service is outdated, we don't have time for that anymore, and its getting to the point where credit cards are becoming a nuisance. we carry all our information on our mobile phones, use it at the register, they scan our phone it pays it like a credit card payment. This is becoming more and more risky, mobile hackers are increasing a lot which is very scary. As well with social networking increasing as well, hackers are going to be spending all their time trying to hack into accounts. Why not? there are upwards to 800million people now signed on to Facebook, with those numbers, they will have success breaching peoples accounts, gaining knowledge that is private!

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