Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft. While the damage is still being assessed, it is clear that the cyberattack took a wide array of data from the companies including credit-card transactions and intellectual property. This latest hacking operation is still running and its level of containment to this point is unknown. The full amount of data stolen and how it was or is being used is also unclear at this time.
Starting in 2008, hackers were able to breach corporate networks by enticing employees to click on contaminated Web sites, email attachments or ads purporting to clean up viruses. In more than 100 cases since then, hackers have gained access to corporate servers that store large quantities of business data, such as company files, databases and email.
This is just another example of the dangers workers in any organization are exposed to daily. Without the proper awareness and training on these issues it is very easy for anyone to unwillingly make the mistake of visiting Web sites that are harmful to their corporation’s servers.
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