Monday, May 6, 2013

The takeaway from Verizon's cyber security report: Cybercrime is way too easy | Killer Apps

The takeaway from Verizon's cyber security report: Cybercrime is way too easy | Killer Apps: "Of the 621 confirmed "data breaches" (successful cyber-attacks) that Verizon's security team investigated around the world in 2012 -- in collaboration with 19 other organizations -- 99 percent were relatively unsophisticated. In fact, 78 percent of all attacks used methods requiring low or "very low" computer skills to gain entry to a target's networks. This means that "the average [computer] user could have done it" or that attackers downloaded hacking tools from the web."

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