Can Data Security Keep Up With Fraud, Bots and Hackers?

Innovations in security are wonderful, but if companies and consumers don’t use them, data leaks will continue unabated.

Hacking, fraud, and malicious bot activity online is getting more sophisticated. As businesses work to eliminate weak points in their security infrastructure, passwords may become obsolete. But are there more breaches, or is there simply more awareness related to breaches, hacking and fraud?

Motherboard contributor Jason Cox noted that breaches seem to be increasing rapidly. He quoted Keen, owner of breach archive Vigilante.pw:

[T]here were 64 dumps in 2011, followed by 71 in 2012, 107 in 2013 and 158 in 2014.

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