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Cyber crime: The gift that keeps on giving

Even the most innocuous piece of information can be valuable to a cyber criminal.

By Patricia Harman | Updated on October 02, 2015

Cyber security has become a top priority for many businesses. The threats lurk both inside and outside of every company. A recent Juniper Research study found that data breaches could cost over $2 trillion on a global scale by 2019.

Technology has made it easier for cyber criminals to collect millions of bits of information from a wide variety of sources, and some experts believe they are using the data to create profiles that could be used access government files, healthcare records and other details previously thought to be protected.  

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