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Malware: What is the most prevalent initial root cause?

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Social engineering is involved in about 70 to 90% of today's successful attacks. Unpatched software is involved in about 20 to 40% of those, and they go back and forth. Unpatched software was number one for a while. Social engineering. I think in 2009, social engineering took over as number one cause, and it hasn't changed. They have been since the beginning of computers, social engineering and unpatched software have been the number one or number two way since the beginning of computers. And it doesn't look like anything is going to change at any time soon.
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