Throughout the information security classes that I have taken, the trends for the industry or category in which data breaches occur has been studied. The article, "Report: Food And Beverage Industry Hit Most By Breaches In 2010" was the topic this week which caught my attention. The food and beverage industry has seen a growing trend with data breaches, but appears that 2010 is the year that this industry was hit the hardest.
It is interesting that the data breaches appear to have been the work of a single organized crime group out of the Russian Federation. The crime group used malware to which was continuously tweaked for the attacks. The group targeted a business such as a coffee shop and then searched out other businesses using the same operating systems to continue their attacks.
The majority of breaches were due to the insecure code or poor security in managing third-party applications and involved data stolen in transit, rather than stored data.
It is interesting to see that an industry that seems to be more on the small change side has become a target.
http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229000957/report-food-and-beverage-industry-hit-most-by-breaches-in-2010.html
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