An apathy of cybersecurity concerns
Commentary
An apathy of cybersecurity concerns
Newsday
FOR JUST over a month, the website of the Guyana Cricket Board has been quite visibly defaced by hackers who demanded US$1,000 in Bitcoin.
The defacement took the form of a warning and demand, stating partly, “Your company was hacked due to major security issues and your documents, contracts, work correspondence ended up in our possession, we would love to forget this incident but we cannot, so your business partners should not suffer because of your negligence to security.”
It’s kind of weird when a definitive statement about the importance of cybersecurity comes from the people who broke into your digital house.
I’ve been trying to understand the studious calm that’s followed the TSTT breach. What collective noun to describe an industry-wide gathering of potential victims ardently burrowing for good soil to stick their heads into.
So I’ve decided on apathy, as in an apathy of cybersecurity concerns.
Consider the Blue Waters breach in December 2023, which dropped 10GB of that company’s data on the dark web.
The circle of individuals affected by the public distribution of personally identifiable information in that breach was significantly smaller than hundreds of thousands affected by the TSTT data breach, so there was little cause for public concern.
Almost nobody would have been concerned about Mrs Hadeed’s c
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