“Apparently, hackers really do still party like it’s 1999,” Verizon said in its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) regarding how often really old vulnerabilities are exploited and result in data breaches. But the real problem is you. It’s me. It’s each and every one of us as the breakdown of security incidents in 2014 revealed that the “common denominator—accounting for nearly 90% of all incidents—is people.”

Oldies are still goodies as the Verizon team added:

Whether it’s goofing up, getting infected, behaving badly, or losing stuff, most incidents fall in the PEBKAC and ID-10T über-patterns. At this point, take your index finger, place it on your chest, and repeat “I am the problem,” as long as it takes to believe it. Good—the first step to recovery is admitting the problem.

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