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Personal Cybersecurity: How to Avoid and Recover from Cybercrime
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Personal Cybersecurity: How to Avoid and Recover from Cybercrime

by Marvin Waschke
January 2017
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
240 pages
8h 24m
English
Apress
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© Marvin Waschke 2017
Marvin WaschkePersonal Cybersecurity10.1007/978-1-4842-2430-4_8

8. What Has the Industry Done?

Have They Made Any Progress?
Marvin Waschke
(1)
Bellingham, Washington, USA
 
When we read about half a billion passwords stolen from a sophisticated Internet service, it might hard to believe, but software is more secure today than it ever has been before. The industry has come a long way.

The Security Legacy

The first commercial software project I worked on in my software career did not have a quality assurance program. When sales sold a copy of the system, the development manager went around to the developers’ desks gathering a handful of eight-inch floppy disks containing the developer’s current best work. The handful of disks went ...
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