Target Fiasco Shines Light on Supply Chain Attacks

The holiday data breach at Target was opened up with stolen credentials from a vendor in the company's supply chain, according to reports that surfaced last week. That kind of attack is getting more and more common these days. "About 80 percent of data breaches originate in the supply chain," said Torsten George, vice president of marketing for Agiliance. With security concerns mounting, corporations have dedicated greater resources to hardening their defenses against hacker attacks. That has forced cyberbandits to adjust their penetration thinking.