cheezhankrn - Slashdot User

Comment Does it actually work? (Score 2) 98

by cheezhankrn on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:53PM (#56343047) Attached to: Cities Worldwide Spent Over $3 Billion Last Year To Peep On You

I have never heard of any crime stopped, or the perpetrator caught via these.
Just the old anecdotal, friends with cars broken into under cameras in parking lots or people mugged in areas with cameras in cities.

The actual effect is never mentioned. Does it reduce crime significantly? Is it all just security theatre?
$3 billion on 'look how much we spent on making you safe!'

Submission + - Google Records Over 750,000 'Hijacking' Breaches In One Year (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:08PM

An anonymous reader writes: A new study by Google and the University of California, Berkeley, claims over 700,000 websites were breached between June 2014 and June 2015. The research shows that "miscreants" had routinely hijacked thousands of vulnerable web servers for "cheap hosting and traffic acquisition." The exact number of recorded "hijacking incidents" within the period was 760,935 but google has been said they were able to curb the amount of breaches through direct communication with webmasters. Google's Safe Browsing Alerts sends notifications to network admins when potentially dangerous URLs are detected on their networks. These have reportedly increased the likelihood of a "cleanup" by more than 50 percent and reduced "infection lengths" by at least 62 percent. According to The Next Web, WordPress topped the chart of platforms that experienced the most breaches (almost half of all attacks). English websites experienced the most attacks, with Chinese, German, Japanese and Russian language websites following closely behind.

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