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Bloomberg China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease. by Michael A Riley. June 5, 2015 — 8:35 PM EDT. Share on FacebookShare on Twitter · Share on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on Google+E-mail. James Lewis. Senior fellow in … Federal data breach affecting employees in Connecticut |
Twitter hoax may prove costly … someday
All I know about Jake Berlin is that you can’t trust anything he posts on Twitter. (Heck, I don’t even know for sure if that’s his real name.)
And I only know Berlin’s public pronouncements can’t be trusted because he’s the guy who generated a slew of media attention over the weekend with a Twitter stunt that made it appear as though he had been ejected from the Pittsburgh Steelers football stadium for merely threatening via his tweets to run out onto the field. He even posted pictures of himself at the game, the last showing him glumly being driven away in a golf cart by what we were to believe was a security guard.
Among those taking the click bait were the Los Angeles Times, TIME.com, The Drudge Report, Yahoo Sports, Sports Illustrated and a parade of bloggers eager to chronicle an audacious kid’s bid for his 15 minutes of fame. The tale was an irresistible slice of social-media life that I may well have written myself if not for the fact I was glued to the tube watching football all weekend.
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Most costly cybercrime attacks: Denial-of-service, malicious insider and web-based
Among U.S. corporations, $ 11.56 million is the mean average cost of cybercrime, while for some it can range between $ 1.3 million and $ 58 million, according to the fourth annual Cost of Cyber Crime study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. That is up 78% from four years ago and a 26% increase from the average cost reported in 2012.
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