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Handling Goofs Cause Many Data Leaks
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:03:26 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2211531,00.asp By Lisa Vaas eWeek November 2, 2007 A sizable chunk of business data is being lost electronically in simple misconfiguration mistakes. Since January 2005, there have been 167.7 million records containing sensitive personal information exposed by security breaches, according to a running total kept by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The question is, How does this information get out there? Loss or theft of a physical object forms by far the largest hole in data security. According to an analysis (PDF) done recently by David Litchfield of Next Generation Security Software, based in Surrey, England, 43 percent of records lost since Jan. 1 slipped out of organizations on paper, computers, laptops, disks or backup media. Other researchers put the figure higher for records that were exposed due to lost or stolen computers or mediasecurity expert Chris Walsh has analyzed New York data sets and puts the figure closer to 99 percent. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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