Wired to the data breach

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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.

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