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Point-of-sale attacks accounted for a third of data breaches in 2013, report says

IDG News Service - (International) Trustwave released a report on data breaches that the company investigated in 2013, which found that e-commerce intrusions accounted for 54 percent of investigated data breaches, while point-of-sale (POS) system intrusions constituted 33 percent of data breaches, among other findings.

Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/052114-point-of-sale-attacks-accounted-for-a-281793.html

Note: This news synopsis is taken from the DHS Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report, a daily [Monday through Friday, except US Federal holidays] summary of open-source published information concerning significant critical infrastructure issues; a 10-day archive of the DOSIR can be found at: http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-daily-open-source-infrastructure-report.