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Verizon Business releases annual data breach investigation report

Each year Verizon Business publishes aggregate data breach information from forensics investigations the company has performed. This report yielded a number of interesting data points including:

The majority of data breaches were caused by external sources. 74% emanated from external sources, 32% were linked to business partners, and only 20% percent were caused by insiders. This statistic flips on [continue]

Posted in General Security, PCI, Privacy on July 14th 2009 by Joe Bonnell

Anti-full disclosure advocates hack to promote purpose

The hacking community must be suffering from an identity crisis. Hacking an innocent website to promote anti-full disclosure is beyond absurd.

Posted in General Security on July 14th 2009 by Joe Bonnell