According to the study, many recent hack attacks on e-commerce sites can be traced to Russia. Recent FBI reports corroborate this, adding that stolen credit card information may have been sold to organized crime rings operating in Eastern Europe. Okay, so you may be taking a chance by purchasing that digital camera online. You already knew that. Not according to McDonnell.
People can hide behind their computers.
Not enough, experts say. The security statements found on many retail Web sites may sound comforting, but in many cases they don't mean much. Most offer vague reassurances about using industry-standard encryption technology, but such encryption applies only to the actual transfer of customer data. One of the most common hack attacks involves breaking into a server that stores customer data from past transactions. You don't want it sitting unprotected in a database.