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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.

Even after being hacked, most Americans fail to properly protect their online personal information online.

Houston leads the nation in the number of computer and mobile devices infected with malware.

Research firm IHS Markit predicts that by the end of 2016, networked surveillance cameras will account for one-third of the installed base of 62 million cameras in North America.