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Fwd: What You Don't Know About the World's Worst Breaches
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 22:55:44 -0400
From the folks at Attrition and the DataLossDB.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org> Date: Jun 3, 2009 5:32 PM Subject: What You Don't Know About the World's Worst Breaches To: dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org, dataloss () datalossdb 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. [..] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified. http://www.iacertification.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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