What You Don't Know About the World's Worst Breaches

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1510

What You Don't Know About the World's Worst Breaches - Dr. Peter Tippett 
on the 2009 Data Breach Investigations Report
June 2, 2009 - Tom Field, Editorial Director

Verizon Business investigated 90 major data breaches in 2008, including 
285 million compromised records. Nearly  of those breaches were external 
hacks, and 99.9 percent of the records were compromised via servers and 
applications.

These are among the findings of Verizon's new 2009 Data Breach 
Investigations Report. In an exclusive interview, Dr. Peter Tippett, VP of 
Technology and Innovation at Verizon Business, discusses:

The survey results;
What these results mean to financial institutions and government entities;
Which threats to watch out for most in the coming months.

Tippett is the chief scientist of the security product testing and 
certification organization, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon 
Business. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer 
security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of 
security products, and over the past 16 years, as a key strategist. He is 
widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that 
later became Norton AntiVirus.

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