[attrition] Etiolated.org Updates

[security curmudgeon]

For attrition fans that may have missed it, our Errata Dataloss project 
has been going strong for a while now. Under the direction and hard work 
of Lyger, we have a comprehensive set of 'data loss' incidents. You know, 
when you get those fun letters from a retailer or bank saying "omg we 
suck, someone got your credit info, just letting you know kthnx."

A few weeks back, Dave Shettler created Etiolated.org as a site that used 
the Dataloss data set to give a user a way to really understand the 
history of these incidents. If you have any interest in this or consider 
yourself a consumer, it's worth a few minutes to check out.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: lyger <lyger at attrition.org>
To: dataloss at attrition.org
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 02:55:36 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Dataloss] Etiolated.org Updates


(I strongly encourage all list subscribers to check out this site.  This
is what we *hoped* could be done with attrition's data loss dataset.  The
initial site went live in nine days and is now less than three weeks old.)

Courtesy Dave Shettler of Etiolated.org:

Etiolated.org Changes/Enhancements

== Search ==

Search functionality has been drastically expanded, utilizing a lucene-like
backend.

Searches can be as complicated as:

org_type:Edu AND org_type:Med AND date:[20060401 TO 20070528] AND
records:[1000 TO *]

Which would get you a list of all breaches at educational institutions
associated with medicine that occurred between march 1st, 2006 and may 28th,
2007 with lost records totaling over 1000.

For a detailed list of options see http://www.etiolated.org/research

== Custom RSS Feeds ==

Each search now produces a custom RSS feed.  For example, for an RSS feed of
all educational institution breaches, search for:

org_type:Edu

And in the header of the results table that follows, you'll see the feed icon
that links to the custom RSS feed.

== Custom Search-based Graphs ==

Any search you run can now have a dynamically generated graph produced based on
the results.

Run a search like those above, click on "Graph Results", choose a title for
your graph, set a couple simple parameters, and you'll have your search results
in a very visual way.  Right click the graph, save as, and use the image as you
please.  Images won't persist, so if you intend to link to it you are better
off saving it someplace where it won't vanish.

== Coming Soon ==

See breaches pinpointed on a pretty map!

Dave (dave at etiolated.org)
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