Technology has shaped many parts of our lifestyle’s from movement from one point to another (GPS), all the way to maintaining all of our hard earned funds on a piece of plastic. The question at hand is how this is all protected and who enforces it?
Network security has proven beneficial in many cases in today’s society. It continuously monitors the companies system ensuring that unauthorized access isn’t permitted, or as we like to believe keeping our information from falling into the wrong hands. Although what happens when this system is hacked and consumer information is stolen? Between the dates of November 27 and December 15, 2013 Target had released its system had been hacked. Target is considered one of the known stores throughout the U.S. with its customer service and personal credit card offering. Retail stores like this should have the capabilities to with stand a possible hack, but apparently they soon found out no one store is safe no matter the size (Wallace, 2013). …show more content…
This articles lets people know that cybercrime is real and it could happen to anyone. According to a data breach tracker “Many Americans are in the first camp. According to a Gallup poll, 27% of Americans say their credit card information has been stolen in the past year, and 11% say their computer or smartphone has been hacked. And the rest are scared: Almost 70% of Americans worry that hackers will steal their credit card numbers from retailers, and 62% worry that hackers will target their personal devices” (Battensby, 2015). So what is to take from this? Does society start hiding their money under there pillow again, should banks shut down and society go in
Network security has proven beneficial in many cases in today’s society. It continuously monitors the companies system ensuring that unauthorized access isn’t permitted, or as we like to believe keeping our information from falling into the wrong hands. Although what happens when this system is hacked and consumer information is stolen? Between the dates of November 27 and December 15, 2013 Target had released its system had been hacked. Target is considered one of the known stores throughout the U.S. with its customer service and personal credit card offering. Retail stores like this should have the capabilities to with stand a possible hack, but apparently they soon found out no one store is safe no matter the size (Wallace, 2013). …show more content…
This articles lets people know that cybercrime is real and it could happen to anyone. According to a data breach tracker “Many Americans are in the first camp. According to a Gallup poll, 27% of Americans say their credit card information has been stolen in the past year, and 11% say their computer or smartphone has been hacked. And the rest are scared: Almost 70% of Americans worry that hackers will steal their credit card numbers from retailers, and 62% worry that hackers will target their personal devices” (Battensby, 2015). So what is to take from this? Does society start hiding their money under there pillow again, should banks shut down and society go in