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Cybersecurity: The Ongoing Situation

In the last 18 months, Heartbleed and the Bash Bug were the big viral threats, while companies —AT&T, JPMorgan, Home Depot and Staples among them — spent the year dealing with hackers and data breaches.

When it comes to computers, someone is always lurking in the shadows trying to spread a virus, take over your computer or hack into your system. In the last 18 months, Heartbleed and the Bash Bug were the big viral threats, while companies —AT&T, JPMorgan, Home Depot and Staples among them — spent the year dealing with hackers and data breaches.

In this day and age, due to such aggressive attacks by hackers, every company should assume that they have been or will be hacked, according to Activate founder Michael Wolf. In this Bloomberg Business video, Wolf discusses cybersecurity in the wake of the Heartbleed bug and recent company hack attacks:

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