IT Security Guru: A spike in point-of-sale (POS) intrusions and the plethora of online identities have led to another year of data breaches.
Featuring data from 50 global organisations from 1,367 confirmed data breaches and 63,447 incidents, the seventh annual Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) from Verizon found that three threat patterns cover 72 percent of the security incidents in any industry: web application attacks; distributed denial of service (DDoS); and card skimming.
