The Top 5 Most Brutal Cyber Attacks Of 2014 So Far

  • 31 July 2014
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Forbes has a nice article summarizing the worst breaches to date in 2014:
 
In 2014, cyber attacks and data breaches don’t look like they’re going to slow down. We’ve seen high-end data breaches of large companies, with data, personal records and financial information stolen and sold on the black market in a matter of days.
 
Analysts, Hold Security, startlingly announced in February that it had managed to obtain a list of 360 million account credentials for web services from the black market. That’s just after three weeks of research.
 
Full article here.

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Interesting article, Nic...thanks.  ALso quite an interesting twist on the use of the word "Brutal"...wonder if that will be in this year's revision of the Oxford Concise English Dictionary...;)

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