Nice job, Chris. I thought that I've seen more re: stolen laptops than digital break-ins.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">lyger</b> <<a href="mailto:lyger@attrition.org">lyger@attrition.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>(Since I know Chris wouldn't do this himself...) ;)<br><br><a href="http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=104574&f_src=darkreading_section_296">
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=104574&f_src=darkreading_section_296</a><br><br>SEPTEMBER 26, 2006<br><br>Which would be more likely to suffer data theft, a university or financial<br>institution?<br><br>
If you've been reading the news lately, you probably said "university."<br>But in New York, it's a different story. Nearly half of the 64 data breach<br>incidents reported in the state between March and May of this year were by
<br>financial institutions and insurance companies -- not educational<br>institutions, according to a researcher who's gathering the data. Only<br>three of the 64 incidents were reported by schools, he says.<br><br>Interestingly, most of the financial institutions' breaches weren't driven
<br>by hackers, says Chris Walsh, an information security architect who is<br>independently researching breach trends using data from New York. "About<br>two thirds of them reported a lost computer, and that's not counting lost
<br>tapes."<br><br>[...]<br>_______________________________________________<br>Dataloss Mailing List (<a href="mailto:dataloss@attrition.org">dataloss@attrition.org</a>)<br><a href="http://attrition.org/dataloss">http://attrition.org/dataloss
</a><br>Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 366 incidents over 6 years.<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>