Avivah Litan
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Avivah Litan
attacked consumers corporate data personal targeted
Consumers are being targeted directly, while their personal data is being attacked on corporate servers. It's a 360-degree threat.
asleep business running wheel
It's not negligence. It's just kind of being asleep at the wheel when business is running smoothly, and then you get hit.
carriers data federal focus phone practices problem rather root security source
But rather that just focus on the data brokers, the federal regulators also need to probe the security practices of the phone carriers themselves. The root of the problem is at the source -- with the phone carriers.
cause machine percent
I would say it's probably the cause of 70 percent of (cash machine card) fraud.
breach customer data dealing expensive exposed less protecting records security
Protecting customer data is much less expensive than dealing with a security breach in which records are exposed and potentially misused.
buried clue information manager store
(It's possible) that a manager of a store has no clue they are doing it. The information can be buried in old software.
accounts faceless open time
In the past, everything was much more traceable. Now you can open 10,000 (bogus) accounts in the time it used to take to open one, all in a faceless Internet.
increases risks security
There will be more security holes. In the end, it increases the risks not decreases them.