According to security researchers, personalized assaults and hacking schemes of special types were the most prominent security threats during 2011, published eweek.com dated 27th December, 2011.
Regarded as one historic year, 2011 had several spheres of importance for security experts. These included sophisticated data-breaches and cyber-assaults. However, the year was also marked with several incidents that exuded certain feeling of déjà vu amidst security witnesses.
CTO, Harry Sverdlove of Bit9 said that the number of personalized assaults was unlike ever-before, with a few extremely sophisticated and others based on rudiment though effective techniques. Eweek.com published this.
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