The always eagerly awaited Verizon DBIR 2014 was released earlier this year. As always, with a nice cup of coffee and some smooth jazz playing in the background, I will endeavour to distil the essence of this always excellent publication... Well, this year, the DBIR departs from just analysing data breaches to looking at 63,347 confirmed security incidents, of which 1,367 were confirmed data breaches (compared to 621 for 2012) across 95 countries (compared to 27 in 2012). This gives far greater richness to the data set and the insights that can be derived from it (rightly so, the DBIR team notes that incidents need not necessarily result on data loss to have a significant impact on an organisation – I couldn’t agree more!). Also don’t miss the month by month review of the major incidents of 2013 on pages 3 & 4, that’ll get you in the mood...
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22 April 2014
31 March 2013
A CONSOLIDATED VIEW ON DATA BREACHES IN 2012 - PART 1...
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It’s that time of year again where we try to make sense of all the new research and statistics. Today, I give you the Trustwave 2013 Global Security Report which analyses 400 data breach investigations (compared to 300 in 2011) across 29 countries (compared to 18 in 2011). Unsurprisingly, 96% of the breaches involved the theft of customer records (payment card data, PII, email addresses), compared to 89% in 2011. Closer to home, this is confirmed by the CIFAS Fraudscape report published in March 2013, where, whilst total fraud in the UK only showed a 5% increase since 2011, abuse of identity fraud increased by a whopping 17.1%, correlating to the Trustwave report showing that out off all client-side attacks observed, 61% targeted Adobe Reader users via malicious PDFs, clearly pointing to social engineering.
It’s that time of year again where we try to make sense of all the new research and statistics. Today, I give you the Trustwave 2013 Global Security Report which analyses 400 data breach investigations (compared to 300 in 2011) across 29 countries (compared to 18 in 2011). Unsurprisingly, 96% of the breaches involved the theft of customer records (payment card data, PII, email addresses), compared to 89% in 2011. Closer to home, this is confirmed by the CIFAS Fraudscape report published in March 2013, where, whilst total fraud in the UK only showed a 5% increase since 2011, abuse of identity fraud increased by a whopping 17.1%, correlating to the Trustwave report showing that out off all client-side attacks observed, 61% targeted Adobe Reader users via malicious PDFs, clearly pointing to social engineering.
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