It is noticeable that there is a high trend of government sites that are regularly targeted by hackers in order to display political reasons; many defacers do it just for the thrill.
But the bottom line here is why it is happening every now and then? Is it to provoke your IT guys or to test how secure your website is?
Statistics shows that there will be more attacks to come. You should be ready to defend yourself. I’m not saying that you should just sit there and think.
It is true that hackers love technology and breaking your security. They are always one or two steps ahead of you but how do you prevent this from happening?
In one of my meetings with the founder of ROOTCON, especially when Semprix and I were invited by http://www.techtalks.ph/ to share about Information Security, Semprix shared a very striking example of how a hacker thinks about technology:
“To ordinary people, you see this spoon or fork as a tool for eating. For hackers, they look at it as a conductor for electricity.”
…and that is the reason why ROOTCON is about bridging these two worlds.
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