unfortunately nothing is 100% safely secured on the web. These software applications are evolving every day and bugs/defects pop up every single day. That's no excuse though. It is the state of the internet that we currently live in. If top tier tech companies hiring the best and brightest to write their software are still getting hacked, then non tech companies who have problems hiring top tech talent are even more vulnerable to these attacks. Also, from my experience the business people in non tech companies do not place a high importance e.g. resources and budget on technology even though they generate a huge amount of profit for them. Trust me, as engineers we've fought those battles on many projects and have lost. Most of them simply do not understand IT. They do the same thing that most of the commenters here do. They overly simplify complex computer systems and think there are band aid solutions to these problems instead of spending money on updating or rewriting old insecure platforms.
Last edited by dunno282; Dec 1, 2018 at 10:50 am