More personal info is being nabbed as part of these break-ins because, simply, each company is taking in reams of data from more customers. As Web usage grows and becomes more personalized, so too do the databases that store the names, addresses and, in worse instances, credit card numbers that are routinely dispensed over Internet lines.  Still, the incidents, with new targets popping up every week, are no less frightening.  Several national governments are on the defensive, while simultaneously exploring ways to use cyber tactical strikes to their own ends.  Google said last year that a widespread intrusion into its system originated in an area that's home to a national security branch of the Chinese army and then blamed the Chinese government for slowing access to its services. A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks charged that the Chinese government ordered the computer hacking, according to a report in The New York Times. Chinese officials denied any involvement in the attack.  Hackers from China, Russia and other countries reportedly penetrated the U.S. electrical grid in 2009. U.S. federal agencies have used digital detective work in countless investigations. President Barack Obama signed executive orders more than a month ago that provide guidelines for how extensively U.S. international military forces can use cyberwarfare, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.  But the cyberattacks that directly affect millions of people (Whoops! Bank account is empty!) are also getting attention from regulators. The FBI is pitching in to help companies make sense of system intrusions, as in the case of Sony.  The Japanese tech giant has become a recent poster child for data mismanagement. Sony's systems have been breached 20 times in the last two months or so.
From scanning news headlines over the last couple of months, you might think the walls around Internet strongholds are made of rotting wood.Yet the frequency of data breaches actually hasn't