Cyber Security and You
As high schoolers in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, we may not consider what is happening on a global scale, or even a national scale. We may not think about how daily, people are trying to steal our information, our parents information from servers across the web. In 2018 alone, billions of people were affected by cyber attacks(“Export Markets”), rounding up 500 billion dollars in 2015 through cyber crime (“Export Markets”). (Cyber Security) These crimes may not directly occur on our devices, to impact our lives. An example of this occurred in 2017. According to USA Today, when Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting companies, recognized an error in one of their web application tools, and didn’t repair it quick enough. Within the two months it took to fix this hole in the web tool, hackers busted through and gained access to 143 million Americans information. These hackers targeted personal information such as the users name, social security information, birth dates, an...
