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Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report Released

April 27, 2016

Verizon's 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report has been released and may be downloaded here. Hat tip to Dave Ries for sending the link along early this morning.

I will take time to read the entire report, but Dark Reading reported yesterday that legitimate user credentials were used in most data breaches, with 63% of them using weak, default or stolen passwords. Marc Spitler, senior manager at Verizon Security Research, and co-author of the report, found the high percentage startling.

Stolen credentials topped the list of threat action types among attacks that used legitimate credentials, followed by malware, phishing and keyloggers. The report draws from more than 100,000 security incidents worldwide in 2015, 3,141 of which were actual data breaches.

Looks like the report is about 80 pages – happy reading all!

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