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The Verizon Data Breach Digest
For this section, we ask you to read the article linked below ("Lifting the Lid off Cybercrime") from Verizon. Each year, Verizon publish reports on the security work they have been doing, with aggregate statistics, changes in trends and other useful information for security professionals. They have also started publishing these case files, which detail specific security breaches that they have dealt with. The people and organisations are anonymised in almost all cases, but the reports are fantastically useful for seeing how real security breaches occur and how they are detected and investigated.
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/lifting-lid-cybercrime
Read through one (or more) case studies on the Verizon site, and write a short (~500 worlds) report on the breach.
- What caused the breach in the first place?
- What technical aspects did the hackers use?
- What kinds of data or information was targetted?
Discuss your findings in the Forum.