Privacy Monday – May 12, 2014

Another busy week in the privacy/security world.  We have some bits and bytes to start your week:

Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigation Report – Something Old, Something New

Verizon is out with its 2014 edition of the comprehensive Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR).   You can get your copy here for your reading pleasure — or heartburn.   Retailers should take particular note of this report.  "(2013) may be tagged as the 'year of the retailer breach,' but a more  comprehensive assessment of the InfoSec risk environment shows it was a year of  transition from geopolitical attacks to large-scale attacks on payment card  systems," according to the report.    Random-access memory (RAM)scraping – a technique that was thought to be past its sell-by date — appears to have increased with alarming intensity.    Retail point-of-sale (POS) systems can be thwarted by weak or nonexistent passwords, allowing criminals to insert malware that will sit on a POS and collect