Data Breaches Made Possible By Incompetence, Carelessness

A study by Verizon Business Security Solutions has found that 87% of data breaches are the result of incompetence and carelessness. Even when hacking was to blame, the intrusion was made possible by systems that were unpatched after fixes had been available for some time. See: Data Breaches Made Possible By Incompetence, Carelessness -- Security -- InformationWeek.