Digital Common Sense

Here’s a link to an interesting story I saw today in the CSO Online newsletter.

The Top 10 Data Breaches of 2007
Stolen hard drives, websites infected with malware and Social Security numbers as passwords–the most brilliant lunacy of a year full of security disclosures.

By Scott Berinato

If there’s only one thing you’ll remember from 2007, it will be Britney Spears’ meltdown. But if there are two things you remember, it will be Britney and the thousands of data breaches that were reported in 2007, right? Right? Well, it’s what we’ll remember, and since we don’t necessarily do celeb gossip (unless you’ve got a good security angle…) we decided to offer up a review of the best and worst of Disclosure ’07.

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Filed by Ken at 3:03 pm under Information Security