Cybercrime takes a bite out of legitimate systems

It's as bad as you feared, as Google has learned all too well. Successful hacks into large enterprises are growing more frequent, more sophisticated, more difficult to detect and more costly. And despite a pile-up of government regulations and billions of dollars in technology, the attacks often go undetected, leaving a wide-open back door through which data flows unimpeded for between six and eight months. Indications are that the unplugged hole may endure even longer for government than for private sector enterprises.

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