Dan O’Dowd seems like the kind of guy you would see pushing a shopping cart in the produce section at the supermarket, just an ordinary guy going through life. That demeanor all changes when he starts speaking. He can scare the living daylights out of anybody. That unassuming, person next door exterior goes away.

A French bank reported an employee hacked into the system, and the bank ended up losing $7 million; TJ Maxx was hacked and lost

about 40 million VISA and MasterCard accounts; French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s bank detail was hacked; the White House network was repeatedly hacked.

“These are just a few things,” said O’Dowd, founder and chief executive of software and defense provider Green Hills Software during a talk at his company’s Technology Summit 2008 in Santa Barbara, Calif. “Most attacks have been covered up, so no one will know. There are plenty of dangerous folks […]

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