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Security: Hacked Data Spreads “Staggeringly” Quickly
You might have heard of the “Dark Web”, a realm of the internet where hackers rule and can communicate among themselves.
Recently the company Bitglass did an experiment to see the extent of the reach of the Dark Web. Bitglass has created a method for watermarking a file. The watermark technology creates invisible changes that are embedded in the file but later allow the file to be uniquely identified.
In the Bitglass experiment bogus data was put into an excel spreadsheet, the file was marked uniquely with a watermark, and then the file was uploaded into the Dark Web. Within 12 days they were able to determine that the file had been shared in 22 countries across five continents. The file was tracked in Nigeria, Russia, China and Brazil.
The Bitglass report noted that it takes on average 205 days in order for a business to realize that they’ve been hacked and data has been taken. The report commented that “the level of access after just 12 days was extraordinary. Imagine how much further the data would spread in 205 days.”
Nat Kausik, CEO of Campbell, Calif.-based Bitglass, said that “I think the challenge is: Every corporation wants to use the public cloud because of the cost benefits and flexibility it provides. On the flip side, the data becomes more vulnerable.”
