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Will Tech Industry Ever Fix Passwords?

16.07.2012
After the recent security breach that site LinkedIn, social media companies are scrambling to patch over their poor security practices. Wait too long to address known security holes, and CIOs should worry about seeing their companies targeted, hacked and eventually vilified in the press.

The list of major breaches gets longer every day: LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm are just the recent ones. Add to that list the Department of Defense, TJX, Sony, Heartland Payment Systems, Emory Healthcare, Global Payments ... well, you see where this is going.

are the norm in 2012, not the exception.

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According to the , there were 189 known breaches from Jan. 1 of this year through the beginning of June. Those breaches have exposed approximately 13.7 million records.

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