Breaches Down, Insider Attacks Up, Verizon Business/Secret Service Study Says

PCI compliance, saturation of black market may have driven decline, investigators say

Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, Contributor

July 28, 2010

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The number of records compromised in major data breaches dropped sharply last year, according to a new study being issued today. But the causes of those breaches changed dramatically, shifting strongly toward insider attacks.

Those are just two of the conclusions revealed in the

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Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark Reading

Tim Wilson, Editor in Chief, Dark Reading

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Tim Wilson is Editor in Chief and co-founder of Dark Reading.com, UBM Tech's online community for information security professionals. He is responsible for managing the site, assigning and editing content, and writing breaking news stories. Wilson has been recognized as one of the top cyber security journalists in the US in voting among his peers, conducted by the SANS Institute. In 2011 he was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Voices in Security by SYS-CON Media.

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