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Wired to the data breach
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 02:06:08 +0000 (UTC)
http://superconductor.voltage.com/2009/05/wired-to-the-data-breach.html Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Wired to the data breach - Wasim Ahmad It all started with an article in WIRED - Group Spots Giant Hacks by Combing Small Newspapers by Kim Zetter, about how intrepid researchers had found patterns in the customer breach notifications coming from regional banks around the US which led them to suspect a wide-ranging data breach. The researchers are all part of a nonprofit volunteer organization - the Open Security Foundation, that posts the result of its research on the DataLossDB.org website. We decided we wanted to see patterns too, especially if it could help focus our customers on new and upcoming security risks. We contacted the foundation and set about visualizing data breach incidents. The result is the map you see above, which you can play with at www.voltage.com/data-breach. Just click on any of the red areas of the world map - clearly not every country reports data breaches, but whatever information is available publicly will eventually find its way into the foundation's database. We marked the incidents with rectangles, the size of which is determined by the number of records breached - just like earthquake maps. A lot of recorded incidents, up to 30%, do not specify the number of records lost however. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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