The toll of cyber crime appears to be rising as criminals become more sophisticated and more focused on financial gain. And while businesses are doing a bit better at protecting themselves, criminals have become better at bypassing the standard security measures, experts say.
To complicate matters, more businesses are adopting cloud computing, in which they run software and store data on computers outside their own premises and their own direct control. (The term can also refer to internal or private clouds, which distribute work over multiple servers but only within an organization.)…