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Security of data analyzed in study
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:53 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/02/26/security_of_data_analyzed_in_s.aspx By Elizabeth Murphy Collegian Staff Writer February 26, 2008 Information security breaches at colleges and universities are on the rise, according to a report released earlier this month. The report, Educational Security Incidents (ESI) Year in Review, spotlights institutions worldwide, and Penn State was included in the report with one data breach last year. In September, the Social Security numbers of more than 10,500 marines were inadvertently posted on a Penn State Web site. The names and numbers were compiled for a research project being conducted at Penn State, according to the report. "My goal with ESI is to, hopefully, increase awareness within higher education that not only is information security a concern, but that the threats to college and university information is not as simple as network and/or computer attacks," Adam Dodge, ESI creator, wrote in an e-mail. The report indicated that there were a total 139 incidents at institutions during 2007, a 67.5 percent increase since 2006. The total number of institutions affected by data breaches also went up to 112, a 72.3 percent increase since 2006. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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