Forget data thieves, data vandals will be your next major pain
For years, the security industry has been primarily focused on stopping data theft, but more and more people in the trade are worried that the next wave of attacks won't steal data, but alter it instead.
On Tuesday, the head of the NSA named data manipulation as one of his top three nightmares, and other vendors are agreeing with him. Caleb Barlow, VP at IBM Security, told The Reg that the firm is already seeing the first signs of this kind of attack and the potential problems could be huge.
On a basic level, this could be as simple as adjusting credit scores or college grades, but there's not a lot of money in that. When you're dealing with bank or retirement accounts the situation is more lucrative, but Barlow thinks the biggest score is market manipulation.
