Security in Computing, 6th Edition
by Charles Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Lizzie Coles-Kemp
Preface
Tablets, smartphones, TV set-top boxes, GPS navigation devices, watches, doorbells, exercise monitors, home security stations, even washers and dryers come with internet connections by which data from and about you go to places over which you have little visibility or control. At the same time, the list of retailers suffering massive losses of customer data continues to grow: Home Depot, Target, T.J. Maxx, P.F. Chang’s, Sally Beauty, Equifax. The scope of the breaches is likewise growing: In September 2022, Facebook announced the compromise of login information for as many as 1 million users, and a separate incident for Australian telecommunications provider Optus may have involved 10 million customers. On the one hand, people want the ...
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