By James Lyne
It seems that barely a day goes by without some kind of cyber attack or major hack hitting the headlines. In today’s hyper digital world, the threat of falling victim to cyber crime is real, and you might expect that these high profile cases would spur us all into action.
Hackers, we know them well. In In 2010 the average web site was found to have over 230 serious vulnerabilities. In 2013, it was discovered that 30,000 websites were attacked each day and 2014 saw an onslaught of user credentials being stolen from popular sites such as eBay. This year has seen Coca-Cola tweeting chunks of Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
It has been revealed that online greetings card company Moonpig.com has taken an API, a tool used for transferring data between software, offline as a flaw was enabling orders to be placed on customer accounts by hackers. A flaw which they knew of way in advance and did nothing about.
Despite daily reports of financial losses and reputational damage as a result of cyber breaches, boards are still in the dark about the current state of their companies’ cyber defences.
