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Monday, February 10, 2014

[rapid7] Security Lessons Learned in 2013 - The Year of Deception Based Attacks

Over the course of the year 2013, the security industry witnessed several high profile mega-breaches, targeting large organizations like Target and Neiman Marcus during the Christmas season, where both activity and spending is at its year-long peak.

The interesting trend from not only these attacks, but many of the other attacks last year? As businesses, corporations, and government agencies get better at using tools and software to protect their own data, hackers are pivoting to capture the data from the weakest links possible…your users.