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Re: Universities riskiest place for SSN
From: Eric Case <eric () ERICCASE COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:32:12 -0700
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 eric (at) ericcase (dot) com http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericcase (520) 344-CISO (2476)
-----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
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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-budgetingDespite 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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- Re: Universities riskiest place for SSN Allison F Dolan (Nov 09)
- Re: Universities riskiest place for SSN Tracy Mitrano (Nov 08)
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