The Six Trends of Cyber Risk in 2014 | PropertyCasualty360

All signs point to 2014 being a “critical year for companies to better prepare to respond to security incident and data breaches.

Malware and hacking attacks jumped by 20% and 31%, respectively, from 2010 to 2011, but fell by nearly 30% in both categories in 2012, reports Verizon. However, 2013 has seen its share of high-profile companies falling to subtle hacking techniques, including Adobe, which lost nearly 38 million personal and password records and Livingsocial, which lost 150,000 pieces of data.

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