Ride the Lightning

The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is Out!

April 15, 2015

Thanks to Dave Ries for alerting me to the publication of The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

I am scrambling to get to ABA TECHSHOW and polish my presentations so let me just recite a few of the highlights from the report:

• 2014 had 2,122 confirmed data breaches and 79,790 security incidents in which data was compromised
• RAM scraping has become major – this kind of malware was present in many high-profile retail breaches
• In 60% of the cases, attackers were able to compromise an organization within minutes
• 23% of recipients open phishing messages and 11% click on attachments
• 50% open e-mails and click on phishing links within the first hour after transmission
• Out of tens of millions of mobile devices, the ones infected with truly malicious exploits was negligible, only 0.03% (that surprised me)

There is much, much more – as always, this is a report well worth reading. One lesson from the report was crystal clear: Humans need to be trained -and trained again – in safe computing and social engineering!

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