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A danger to us
Post by DDHvi   » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:45 pm

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Cyberterrorists have already broken into the world’s most secure digital systems…

For example…

In May, hackers stole information on 300,000 private tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). They used the information to claim tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds.

In April, hackers gained access to President Obama’s email. They gathered details on Obama’s personal schedule as well as private conversations with foreign officials.

And earlier this year, we learned that a group of hackers infiltrated some of America’s largest and most sophisticated financial firms. The victims include JPMorgan Chase, E*Trade, and Scottrade. The hackers stole the personal data of more than 100 million customers. They even manipulated stock prices.


From:

http://thecrux.com/this-is-the-major-fi ... ing-about/

As the article pointed out, most of our stored value is now bits and bytes, on line. Makes me think of Revelation 13: 16>17; today it would be possible for someone with enough control to arrange that no account would open without a certain symbol on living flesh being presented.
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Re: A danger to us
Post by biochem   » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:47 pm

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Cybersecurity is something that is not being taken seriously enough by key financial corporations and especially by the government. The usual procedure seems to be to have decent quality protection that keeps out the majority of hackers but not the above average hacker, then an individual and/or group of above average hackers breaks in, only then after the fact does the corporation/government entity upgrade their decent protection to excellent protection. This pattern seems to be repeated over and over again. The current identity theft problem resulting from it is bad enough, but sooner or later something even more catastrophic is bound to occur.
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