Scanty Security

It's 3:30pm on a Tuesday afternoon, and an urgent phone call is received by the bank manager advising him that the network is 'acting-up' again. Frozen systems, blue screens, and data losses are occurring on workstations around the entire bank. Employees sit at their cubicles dumbfounded, as they no longer have control over their computers. An incoming fax is received, and the sender is anonymous; "Your network is a f__ing mess." The message goes …

…institutes such as NASA and the White House aren't invulnerable from hackers. That goes to show that if these technologically rich places, where security is the number one concern can't stop hackers, then no one can. It's scary to think how fast we are moving into the cyber world and how quickly we are converting to living digital lives because, a computer network can never and will never be a secure place for people's information.