Wednesday, 23 March 2016

New Brunswick’s Cybersecurity Opportunity

FREDERICTON—How safe is your personal data? Your credit card number, social insurance number, health records and bank information? Here’s a reality check: it’s probably not as safe as you think.

Every day, hackers around the world are trying to break into company websites and data records, seeking out private information to sell on the black market.

David Shipley, a cybersecurity expert at the University of New Brunswick, has seen it firsthand. “In a peak time last year, we were getting as many as 145 attempts a second to breach our network in Fredericton,” he said.

Hackers are professionals, not just kids hiding out in the basement. For the full article click here 



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