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Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:05:59 -0400
This is exciting stuff, and is an example of how research can be done when we share data. He's making his data available--it's largely, but not entirely, driven by the attrition data set. See http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/43/6-million-personal-records-compromised-each-month-2-billion-in-total-by-december#more-43 Adam On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Dissent wrote: | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070313114354.htm | | | If Phil Howard's calculations prove true, by year's end the 2 | billionth personal record -- some American's social-security or | credit-card number, academic grades or medical history -- will become | compromised, and it's corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are | primarily to blame. By his reckoning, electronic records in the | United States are bleeding at the rate of 6 million a month in 2007, | up some 200,000 a month from last year. | | Howard, an assistant professor of communication at the University of | Washington, bases his projections on a review of breached-record | incidents as reported in major U.S. news media from 1980 to 2006. The | total through last year stood at 1.9 billion -- or roughly nine | records per American adult. | | [...] | | | -- | Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org | Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss | Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss | | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/dataloss | Tracking more than 149 million compromised records in 598 incidents over 7 years. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 149 million compromised records in 598 incidents over 7 years.
Current thread:
- Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency Dissent (Mar 13)
- Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency Adam Shostack (Mar 13)
- Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's DigitalDelinquency DAIL, ANDY (Mar 13)
- Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency Chris Walsh (Mar 13)
- Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency Dissent (Mar 14)
- Re: Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency Adam Shostack (Mar 13)