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Case Study: Critical Controls that Could Have Prevented Target Breach SANS.edu Graduate Student Research
by Teri Radichel - September 12, 2014Target shoppers got an unwelcome holiday surprise in December 2013 when the news came out 40 million Target credit cards had been stolen (Krebs, 2013f) by accessing data on point of sale (POS) systems (Krebs, 2014b).
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