![]() ![]() ![]() Not been true for hacking attacks, which surged 62 percent last year, according to the security company Symantec. If a stunning number of airplanes in the United States crashed tomorrow, there would be investigations, lawsuits and a cutback in air travel, and the airlines’ stock prices would most likely plummet. Of private, medical and financial data and the nation’s computerized critical infrastructure - oil pipelines, railroad tracks, water treatment facilities and the power grid - move online.Īfter a year of record-setting hacking incidents, companies and consumers are finally learning how to defend themselves and are altering how they approach computer security. Computer security is not well regulated, even as enormous amounts The Internet is still largely held together with Band-Aid fixes. Kocher and security experts reason, is a lack of liability and urgency. There has been more than a 10,000-fold increase in the number of new digital threats over the last 12 years. The other, which details the number of new computer security threats, shows the opposite. One shows the number of airplane deaths per miles flown, which decreased to one-thousandth of what it was in 1945 with the advent of the Federal Aviation Administration in 1958 and stricter security and maintenance SAN FRANCISCO - Paul Kocher, one of the country’s leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world’s dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts.
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