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Damon Cortesi to Present at Security BSides Las Vegas

Principal Consultant Damon Cortesi will be presenting at Security BSides Las Vegas. Damon’s talk will cover security considerations within social networking sites such as Twitter, as well as web-application related challenges organizations face in the web 2.0 space.

Posted in Events, Social Networking on July 21st 2009 by Joe Bonnell

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

SSN numbers can be predicted

SSNs can be predicted

Posted in Privacy on July 14th 2009 by Joe Bonnell