New Verizon Business Report Outlines 15 Most Common Attacks
From Dark Reading:
Keyloggers and spyware are the most commonly occurring attacks in companies that suffer major data breaches, according to a report published today by Verizon Business.
The new report, “2009 Supplemental Data Breach Investigations Report: An Anatomy of a Data Breach,” offers a look at the 15 most common security attacks and how they typically unfold. The data is extracted from Verizon Business’ April 2009 study of its computer forensics service customers, all of whom have experienced a major data breach.
The report taps Verizon Business’ detailed investigative records to identify, rank, and profile the most common attacks. For each type of attack, the report provides real-world scenarios, the warning signs, how the attack is orchestrated, how attackers got in, what information they took, what assets the attackers targeted, what industries are commonly affected, and what countermeasures are effective. In total, the report details nearly 150 ways to detect and combat security threats. This latest installment in Verizon’s data breach study series is based on the “2009 Verizon Business Data Breach Investigations Report,” issued in April. That landmark study analyzed more than 90 forensic investigations involving 285 million compromised records
