No company wants to announce a breach and usually do it because they have to.

Like the Home Depot situation. Their fix was to buy their executives $3,000 Macs because Macs "don't get viruses" (not true). That's the computing equivalent of putting bullet proof windows on your house when you live in a safe area.

So I'm good.

I've been interested in how to interpret this map:

http://map.ipviking.com/

I realize this is only a slice of the data from the Norse database, but the vast majority of hits for the last week (since I've been watching) have been on Seattle and St. Louis.

I've been asking people how to know how to know when it's just the regular amount of people trying to hack and when an "event" is going on.

The only major change I've noticed is the top "attacker" (or location of proxies) changed from the US to China during the week.

How do they even know? Its too complicated for this kid.

works out all the possible scenarios of various nuclear first strike options. Clearly, looking at all of those incoming cyber attacks, if this were nuclear war, the U.S. would have been obliterated...

This thing actually put me to sleep the first night I looked at it. When I woke up, it was 3am and my glasses were missing (slid off on the floor somewhere - lucky I didn't roll over and break them). Be very careful - that thing is dangerous!

And again, I read the Norse info on it carefully, and this data is only partially representative of their "incoming" database.

But I'm assuming the data isn't "cherry-picked", so it should show if there is a real mega-attack in progress, shouldn't it?

I hope an expert will come and tell me what to look for to recognize such an attack.

Also, I'm wondering what the targets are in St. Louis. According to Google News there have been several minor targets (like the Mayor's checks bouncing), the list of local KKK members, and the retirement system was hacked, but there is obviously a lot more going on than that. Whatever is being pounded, it's under wraps.