In 2014, there were increases in #malware designed to target retail point-of-sale systems and #attack supervisory control and #data acquisition (SCADA) systems, according to #dell’s annual #threat report.
The report [pdf] was released, interestingly enough, just one day before Verizon’s industry standard Data #breach Investigations Report.
It highlights emergent attack trends from 2014 by analyzing data gathered by Dell’s global response intelligence defense network, which consists of millions of security sensors in more than 200 countries, honeypots, malware and internet protocol reputations from firewalls and email security services, shared intelligence from freelance researchers, and the broader industry and spam alerts from Dell security products.
