78% of Organizations Experienced a Data Breach in the Past 2 Years

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78% of Organizations Experienced a Data Breach in the Past 2 Years
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When Target (http://mashable.com/category/target/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) publicly confirmed that the credit and debit accounts of 40 million customers had been compromised in December, many consumers received a rude awakening to the real danger of entrusting businesses with so much data.

If the recently exposed Heartbleed (http://mashable.com/category/heartbleed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) OpenSSL vulnerability didn't make the state of data security even more horrific, odds are you don't fully understand it.

See also: Why Heartbleed Is the Ultimate Web Nightmare (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/heartbleed-nightmare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


For businesses and organizations, especially those of the small-to-medium variety, the need for security vigilance and data protection is as vital as it's ever been. It's estimated that cybercriminals steal $1 billion every year from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Europe Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/15/data-breach-infographic/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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