UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa — More than 100 banks in 30 countries have joined the ranks of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Sony Pictures. As targets of unprecedented, and likely some of the most costly, cyber attacks in history, the financial institutions, insurance company and film studio are reeling after record-setting amounts of data, money, internal emails and more were stolen by hacker groups, which in some instances are believed to have been sanctioned by nation-states. Just last year, thieves behind the Target and Home Depot breaches made off with customer credit card numbers and cost the corporations millions of dollars. But most data breaches don’t make headline news, and sometimes companies don’t know they’ve been hacked until it’s too late. In 2014 alone, there were more than 740 breaches in the financial, business, health care, education and government sectors, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. That figure is expected to climb in 2015. Penn State’s own intrusion detection and prevention system operated by Security Operations and Services, the University’s cyber security team, identifies and blocks approximately 157,000 hostile systems from accessing 200,000 computers on the University network on any given day. And within the next year, areas across […]
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