Hacking Mostly a Matter of ‘Jiggling Door Handles’

Like many criminals, most hackers commit opportunistic attacks.

Chris Novak, co-founder and director of the Verizon Investigative Response Unit, said most hackers are like a home burglar “jiggling door handles” as he walks through a neighborhood.

“They go after whatever they can get into,” said Novak on a cyber claims and loss panel from the NetDiligence Cyber Risk & Privacy Liability Forum. Oftentimes, he added, hackers “don’t know who they hacked in to.”

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Chad Hemenway, Hacking mostly a matter of ‘jiggling door handles’ (June 28, 2016), available with subscription at Advisen Cyber Front Page News.