Nelson said he had one recent case involving a large, international company based in the Delaware Valley that fired an IT worker. The company was hacked by him two months later. Some 26 percent said they'd been hacked by a foreign corporation and 21 percent by a foreign government. He said a school he works with in the region was recently hacked by a seventh grader who let the school know he'd found a way into the system. If you think you haven't been hacked or probed, you're wrong.
Simple steps can help Taking some basic steps can help protect companies from being hacked.
Mildre Wampler, a strategic architect with IQ Group , said employees should change their passwords on a regular basis, and not use their social security numbers, names or nicknames when choosing passwords. Companies should also have a written security policy that is easy to read and gets distributed to everyone in the firm. Everyone from the maintenance worker to the president of the company should be informed about security issues. Panelists said no. Content may not be republished without permission.