How The Government Could Mitigate Damage From Future Hacks like Equifax

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By now everyone should already be aware that criminals attacked Equifax’s website, gaining access to nearly half of every American’s private information, including social security numbers, addresses and drivers’ licenses. Now Equifax are reporting that the intruders used a two-month old vulnerability in Apache Struts  (CVE-2017-5638) that was left un-patched. Everyone has a right to be mad at…