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Hackers Are Getting Personal, Security is More Difficult: Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, spoke with Business Insider about how hacking is becoming worse than it has been in the past. In the video he says that hacking "is becoming a really serious problem." He explains that the problem is two-fold. For instance, the intensity has increased dramatically and there is a rise in custom attacks called spearfishing attacks. Spearfishing attacks are personalized attack. This makes it difficult for traditional security methods like looking for signatures not work, because the spam messages are too personalized.

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