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Re: Emergent Chaos: Is It Time To End the Breaches Category?
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:23:59 -0400
Not at all! I was planning to drop a note here tonight. If I may plug, we're going to be *highly* on topic this week, and I'll feel bad about posting all the blog posts to this list. Adam On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:42:36PM -0400, lyger wrote: | | (Adam and Chris, hope you don't mind, but I find this to be relevant and | newsworthy considering the time and effort you've both spent on this topic | - lyger) | | http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/09/is_it_time_to_end_the_bre.html | | Looking back to February of 2005, that companies routinely lose control of | data entrusted to them was known mostly to security professionals and | enthusiasts. Breaches were swept under the rug, and the scope and breadth | of the problem was unknown. Thanks to Choicepoint's dedication to bringing | about public debate on the issue, the outstanding reporting of Bob | Sullivan and others, and my unholy fascination with it, and Chris's | dedication in finding data, things have changed. This blog became an | important source of information and analysis, and I'm very pleased to have | contributed to the changes. The stories are now mainstream, and more | broad. Things like "Payroll Giant [ADP] Gives Scammer Personal Data of | Hundreds of Thousands of Investors" make ABC news. (Names and addresses, | not SSNs.) | | [...] | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/dataloss | Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 349 incidents over 6 years. | _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 349 incidents over 6 years.
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- Emergent Chaos: Is It Time To End the Breaches Category? lyger (Sep 18)
- Re: Emergent Chaos: Is It Time To End the Breaches Category? Adam Shostack (Sep 18)