A lack of awareness is fueling the surge in cyber crime but
there are pragmatic steps that organizations can take.
Tucked away in an office block in central London is a room
dedicated to finding flaws in organizations' cyber defenses.
Many such rooms exist. It's just that few are operated by the
good guys.
On the wall, a large screen illustrates the main computer
viruses and where in the world they are currently wreaking havoc.
Another offers a glimpse into the dark web – the hidden realm
of the internet that most people aren't aware even exists
– and displays messages from a chat-room where anonymous
hackers congregate to boast about their attacks.
Facilities like this are increasingly important because the
stakes are so high. In the Sony PlayStation hack of
2011,[1] some 77 million user accounts were compromised.
Yet even this was eclipsed by an attack on Yahoo,[2]
which lost personal data for 500 million people in 2014 – a
fact that was only disclosed in
