PARIS: A series of high-profile cyberattacks on targets in the West have highlighted the vulnerability of companies and institutions, making the issue a higher public priority but with no easy solution. The attack saw its computer systems encrypted, putting its operations offline and causing fuel shortages for American drivers. Beyond the major incidents that make the news, cybersecurity firms and experts have been warning for years about the rising tide of online attacks - some state-orchestrated, some criminally motivated. "There are two kinds of companies in the world, those who have been hacked and those who haven't detected it yet," she told AFP. "Europe and the United States are sometimes shown as being the victims and the nice guys in this domain... but that's not how it is.There's a general blindness about our own operations," said Nocetti.

Source: Manila Times May 25, 2021 05:15 UTC