The sharing of personal information over the Internet has been a huge driver for targeted attacks, which are designed to steal highly sensitive corporate information. According to the article, “Surviving today’s targeted attacks,” hackers who once sought fame and notoriety are now motivated by money. Targeted attacks go after the most valuable corporate data including source codes, future product information, third-party data, executives’ emails and customer information. Stefan Tanase, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said there are four steps cyber criminals take in executing a targeted attack: Continue reading this post…