2013
The year retrospective. 2013 has been the largest single year of structural change in the threat landscape since 2011 — and where 2011 was about specific failures, 2013 has been about the trust chain itself.
Target
Three days after Target's confirmation of a substantial point-of-sale breach. Forty million credit-card records taken between Black Friday and the fifteenth of December. The technical chain matters because it is going to be the operational template for the next several years of retail breaches.