The Pentagon Federal Credit Union, the third-largest Credit Union in America, has suffered a security breach exposing the personal data of an unknown number of members. Their explanation is malware brought in on an infected laptop.
There was a time when you could depend on a firewall to protect your network, when data and work would stay in one place and something like this couldn’t happen. There was also a time when a city had a huge wall around it, with one or two gates. Now people have locks on their individual houses, but apparently, the computing world hasn’t caught up yet.