Re: Universities riskiest place for SSN

[Eric Case <eric () ERICCASE COM>]

The original post,
http://blogs.mcafee.com/consumer/identity-theft/top-ten-most-dangerous-place
s-to-leave-your-social-security-number, says, "Robert Siciliano, on behalf
of McAfee,  analyzed data breaches published by the Identity Theft Resource
Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Open Security Foundation that
involved Social Security number breaches from January 2009 - October 2010 to
reveal the riskiest places to lose your ID."

It is unclear if they ranked by number of records/breach or number of
breaches.
-Eric



Eric Case, CISSP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy Mitrano
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 11:51 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Universities riskiest place for SSN
>
> I'm with Martin about being skeptical ... maybe a few years ago, but I
think
> this is old and now not very accurate news ... Tracy
>
>
> On Nov 8, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Martin Manjak wrote:
>
> > I'd like to see the list of the safest places. Looking through the list,
> > there don't appear to be any.
> > Marty
> >
> > On 11/8/2010 1:12 PM, Allison F Dolan wrote:
> > > Interesting list of risky places to give your SSN - higher ed is #1
> > >
> > > http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/111238/10-riskiest-
> places-to-give-your-social-security-number?mod=bb-budgeting
> > > Despite the somewhat sensationalist headline, the advice for protecting
> > > SSN is pretty good.
> > >
> > > ......Allison  Dolan (617-252-1461)
> >
> > --
> > Martin Manjak
> > Information Security Officer
> > University at Albany
> > CISSP, GSEC, GCWN
> >
> > "What information consumes...is the attention of its recipients."
> > Herbert Simon, 1971

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