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Tag Archives: data breach
Net-Witness of the Persecution
March 9, 2010 – 6:00 am
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There is an interesting article in the February 18, 2010 Wall Street Journal by Siobhan Gorman, with the title “Hackers Attack 2,411 Firms: Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data; Operation Is Still Running.” It describes how staff of the security services firm, NetWitness,…
Network Solutions “Hacked Account” Demonstrates Incompetence
January 7, 2010 – 5:00 am
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When in doubt, claim the account was hacked. That appears to be the reasoning of a Network Solutions Technical Support Representative. Normally I do not write about other companies but this is an interesting case. As professionals we view being hacked as something we defend against. While some…
Classy Data (pt. 3) – Ownership and Risk
September 28, 2009 – 6:00 am
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Security professionals proudly describe how they assign owners to their organizations’ data and those owners “assume the risk of any compromise of the data.” Give me a break! The owner is invariably some business-unit manager who just wants to get the job done. The manager will agree to…
Video: Hard Drives – Watch Them Shred
January 29, 2009 – 5:00 am
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While it’s the dream of almost every information security department to send their hard drives off to the shredder to destroy sensitive data, few of us have actually witnessed it. Below is a YouTube video that shows the visual process that turns our precious hard drives turn to scrap.…
An Analysis of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse “Chronology of Data Breaches” and Implications for Information Security Professionals (pt. 2)
July 2, 2008 – 6:00 am
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A few weeks ago, I presented the results of an analysis of data breaches occurring in 2007, the last full year for which information is available; the “Chronology of Data Breaches” database, available at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse website (privacyrights.org) provided source data…