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The NFL’s biggest game – and one of the largest sporting events on the planet – is just days away, offering millions the chance to be entertained for a few hours.

According to the SANS Institute, 95 percent of all attacks on enterprise networks start with a successful spear phishing attack.

Last year, cybercriminals attacked the California-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, encrypting files crucial in running the hospital’s operating systems and demanding a ransom to restore them to working order.

Remember Stuxnet? In 2010, an ambitious covert operation was discovered and exposed: in Iran, a computer virus was causing hardware used to enrich uranium gas to fail.

According to the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR), more than one-third of organizations that experienced a breach in 2016 reported substantial customer, opportunity and revenue loss of more than 20 percent. 

The number of identity fraud victims increased by 16 percent (rising to 15.4 million U.S. consumers) in the last year.

More than one in four organizations have been breached in the past 12 months, while 23 percent aren’t sure if they have been breached or not.

Nearly half (46%) of Americans say they check their smartphones as soon as they wake up, while they’re still in bed.