Cyber Defense Magazine – Recidivist is an interesting word. It means \u201ca convicted criminal who reoffends, especially repeatedly.\u201d The word had common usage in the last century although it started to fall into disuse the last 30 years or so. There isn\u2019t another word that aptly describes the behavior identified in the NSFOCUS 2018 H1 Cybersecurity Insights report, which found that out of 27 million cyberattack sources in the first six months of 2018, 25 percent were repeat attackers or \u201creoffenders.\u201d These recidivists were then responsible for
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Cyber Defense Magazine – Recidivist is an interesting word. It means \u201ca convicted criminal who reoffends, especially repeatedly.\u201d The word had common usage in the last century although it started to fall into disuse the last 30 years or so. There isn\u2019t another word that aptly describes the behavior identified in the NSFOCUS 2018 H1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n