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Are Larger Organizations More Susceptible to Spear Phishing Attacks?

IT professionals attending Microsoft TechEd 2012 last month took a break to weigh-in and offer their opinions on a handful of security questions about their own corporate IT systems. According to those that participated in the informal survey, it appears that larger organizations are indeed more susceptible to spear phishing.

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