Re: The Great Cyberwar Has Just Begun
By: MRO to Ogg on Mon Mar 28 2022 08:51 pm
> Re: The Great Cyberwar Has Just Begun
> By: Ogg to All on Mon Mar 28 2022 05:25 pm
>
> > Right now, more than ever, you need to secure all your online
> > accounts. It's long past time to embrace two-factor
> > authentication, stop reusing passwords, and make your online
> > presence hacker-resistant. Because sooner or later, the brewing
> > cyberwar will come for you.
>
> > While it's true that hacking and compromising personal accounts
> > have been a scourge of the internet for years, if not decades,
> > what we're starting to see dwarfs the threats we've lived
>
>
> it doesnt matter what we do with passwords or whatever.
> our providers are the ones that arent secure.
That is something I was thinking myself.
Heck, even if a given provider has a very secure infrastructure, most medium siz
ed ones are going to
externalize lots of components. Say, I could have all my customer data managed b
y my very secure servers,
and then have part of that data processed by a third party.
For example, I may host a well secured infrastructure for managing patient data,
with an application that
reports patients' visits to the insurance companies via an API (because othewise
the insurance companies
won't pay us for medical services, heh). Once I send a request full of sensitive
data to the insurance
company , it leaves my "very secure" infrastructure and you don't know how the i
nsurance companies are
going to secure the data. They are probably going to be careful, but also they c
ould just print the
patients' files and leave them laying around on the office for the cleaning staf
f to find :-)
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