APAC consumers share more data, but will ditch firms over security breach

APAC consumers share more data, but will ditch firms over security breach

Jameel Jaffer, director of marketing at the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes, told The New York Times that governments and technology companies are starting to take risks in the digital world.

The largest breaches in 2012 occurred in China, where 35 million individuals were caught installing malware on computers belonging to government officials — up from just over 2 million in 2011.

Windows malware has infected millions of computers in the US since 2011, with the deadliest cases occurring in August and September of last year.

“It is becoming increasingly likely that all the vulnerabilities present in Windows can be exploited by a small number of stealthy security researchers and the public,” U.S. Computer Security Research Association president David Harman said in a statement.

“The government and industry are fighting back in a manner that is not incremental, but ensuring none of the agencies and individuals involved are able to exploit’merge’ vulnerabilities that are already there and make them vulnerable to’mini-vulnerabilities’ in the future.”

The report noted that cyber security was “truly widespread, and some companies began to build their own malware to replace older security software, which could potentially pose security hazards.”

“Beyond the calendar, data from the Internet of Things (IoT) and other IoT systems was being used to gather and store CCTV [wearable item] tracking data, which also had emerged in 2012 and could potentially be used in entirely different ways,” the report added.

The report also said that many IT companies were wary of supporting malware sharing, fearing that the theft of valuable data could be done from people looking to install malware without security measures.

A year ago, hackers from Norway hacked into a third-party provider of smartphones, according to an article in The Daily Beast, and attempted to hack into an internal storage system in a holiday resort.

At the time, the National Security Agency (NSA) said that it had no evidence that the attackers were responsible for orchestrating the attacks.

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“The national security office of the United States Department of Homeland Security is continuing to investigate, and will respond to, the findings of this investigation,” the department’s inspector general said in a statement.

“The appropriate actions by the administration of President Obama should include the immediate and complete removal of these individuals from the U.S. intelligence community, and would require a new, permanent plan to address their context and mitigate their exposures,” the statement said.

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