Security Breaches
Explore the causes and impacts of security breaches in distributed systems. Understand key vulnerabilities like injection attacks and XML external entity injection, and learn best practices for embedding security into your applications to safeguard data and maintain trust.
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Security incidents
Poor security practices can damage our organization and many others. Our company may suffer direct losses from fraud or extortion. That damage is multiplied by the cost of remediation, customer compensation, regulatory fines, and lost reputation. Individuals will lose their jobs, up to and including the CEO . In 2017, the “WannaCry” ransomware affected more than 70 countries. It hit office computers, subway displays, and hospitals. The UK’s National Health Service got hit particularly hard, causing X-ray sessions to be canceled, stroke centers to close, and surgeries to be postponed. It put lives at risk .
In an epic game of one-upmanship, Equifax revealed in 2017 that 145.5 million US consumers’ identities had been stolen ...