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

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

> From the folks at Attrition and the DataLossDB.

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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
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 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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