Point-of-sale breaches down to 198 incidents related to POS devices in 2013, Verizon report says. Target breach was one of the biggest breaches in U.S. history. Data in the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is broken up by nine characteristic attack patterns common to breaches across the board. Verizon says attackers are getting faster at breaching vulnerable assets at a higher rate than which defenders are remediating. Attackers are widening the gap in time between the time it takes to compromise an asset and time to discover and remediate a breach.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dbir-point-of-sale-breaches-trending-downward/105598/