In today's technological age, keeping data secure has become an important aspect for many companies. Hackers have become more advanced than ever, employing new techniques with devastating affects. After completing this project, I have realized how important it is to send secure emails. Emails with precious data should be digitally signed and encrypted. Email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird allow users to send secure emails with ease. The company, HBGary Federal, learned that sending secure emails can't be looked over after recent attacks.
This article is about how hackers penetrated the HBGary Federal system. HBGary is a company that does investigations on a company's competitor to find damaging information about them. When internal emails were breached, this highly classified information was spread throughout the Internet. Many of these emails contained information about different companies that HBGary was doing investigations on. HBGary proposed that many of these leaked emails were falsified. Whether they were falsified or not, this cyberattack has been very damaging to the company. This article shows how important it is to secure your emails before you send them. With such highly classified information, I'm surprised the emails weren't secured in the first place.
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