Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by bsenftner on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:58PM
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Certainly a lack of mental investment. The NSA and these credit agencies are not a comparison, as their jobs are quite different. If nothing else, the NSA has to be connected to public networks to do their covert operations. Not so with a "credit rating agency". They should not be on a public network at all. Before the Internet, they were not, they were on private leased lines.
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Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by devy on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:13PM
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You missed the point. I am arguing that no amount of investment is big enough to make data breaches go away. Even the top intel agency with top budget and top resources can't avoid breaches, what else would you expect a corporation?
However this is not an excuse for Equifax to not put more focus and investment on their security.
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by orf on Friday September 08, 2017 @06:25PM
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> I am arguing that no amount of investment is big enough to make data breaches go away.
Sure, nothing is totally secure against a dedicated, motivated attacker with unlimited resources. Thankfully those are few and far between.
Based on that Equifax has said that this doesn't seem to be the case.
Re:Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
by danblick on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:26PM
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Your argument that credit rating agencies shouldn't be on the internet is really terrible.
People pay credit rating agencies to retrieve their credit reports, get credit scores, and open disputes, and the best way to do all that is online.