Hass & Associates Online Reviews: Cyber warfare provides ominous welcome to 2015
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Cyber warfare provides ominous welcome to 2015
“So long mom, I’m off to drop the bomb, so don’t wait up for me. … I’ll look for you when the war is over, an hour and a half from now.” — Lyrics by
Tom Lehrer, to the song, “So long, mom.”
Fifty years ago, when Tom Lehrer’s hilarious topical humor was being set to music, the notion of World War III was imagined as one consisting of nuclear warheads that could attack any target in about 30 minutes.
After that, it was anybody’s guess. As a guide told my family during a tour of an old missile silo in the Arizona desert, once the command was given to launch, the men in charge of a silo were to subsist on available food storage for a month or so. Then, if they had heard nothing, they were to venture above ground to see what was left of the world.
Make no mistake, such a threat still exists, although many of the old Cold War missile silos dotting the land have been deactivated and filled with dirt. But it would be interesting to hear the songs Lehrer, now in his 80s, could write today about warfare conducted by people in their pajamas wielding computer mice and keyboards.
The year that is passing has not been a kind one for personal financial responsibility. Sure, the U.S. economy is humming along. The Dow seems to be setting record after record as the new year approaches, and unemployment is at 5.8 percent nationally and falling.
But as the year ends, the office supply chain Staples has confirmed a data breach that compromised 1.16 million credit and debit cards used by customers at 119 stores across 35 states. The company also said criminals appear to have used this information already for fraud and other mischief.
Ah, for days of auld lang syne, when nuclear Armageddon was our only concern.
The Staples news, of course, comes on the heels of a growing list of similar breaches involving retail heavyweights such as Target, Neiman Marcus and others. It ended a year in which JPMorgan came under attack by
Cyber warfare provides ominous welcome to 2015
“So long mom, I’m off to drop the bomb, so don’t wait up for me. … I’ll look for you when the war is over, an hour and a half from now.” — Lyrics by
Tom Lehrer, to the song, “So long, mom.”
Fifty years ago, when Tom Lehrer’s hilarious topical humor was being set to music, the notion of World War III was imagined as one consisting of nuclear warheads that could attack any target in about 30 minutes.
After that, it was anybody’s guess. As a guide told my family during a tour of an old missile silo in the Arizona desert, once the command was given to launch, the men in charge of a silo were to subsist on available food storage for a month or so. Then, if they had heard nothing, they were to venture above ground to see what was left of the world.
Make no mistake, such a threat still exists, although many of the old Cold War missile silos dotting the land have been deactivated and filled with dirt. But it would be interesting to hear the songs Lehrer, now in his 80s, could write today about warfare conducted by people in their pajamas wielding computer mice and keyboards.
The year that is passing has not been a kind one for personal financial responsibility. Sure, the U.S. economy is humming along. The Dow seems to be setting record after record as the new year approaches, and unemployment is at 5.8 percent nationally and falling.
But as the year ends, the office supply chain Staples has confirmed a data breach that compromised 1.16 million credit and debit cards used by customers at 119 stores across 35 states. The company also said criminals appear to have used this information already for fraud and other mischief.
Ah, for days of auld lang syne, when nuclear Armageddon was our only concern.
The Staples news, of course, comes on the heels of a growing list of similar breaches involving retail heavyweights such as Target, Neiman Marcus and others. It ended a year in which JPMorgan came under attack by