[Dataloss] Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's DigitalDelinquency

[DAIL, ANDY]

This is an interesting point as well.
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The data problem is growing every day as well. Dan Geer points out that
three years ago the per capita data production rate on the planet
(including all of those people who make less than a dollar a day) was
800 Mbytes. That was three years ago, and data production rates are
basically doubling every 18 months. It seems that the problem is getting
bigger and bigger even as we're only barely coming to grips with it.
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http://www.cigital.com/silverbullet/shows/silverbullet-002-dgeer.pdf






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[mailto:dataloss-bounces at attrition.org] On Behalf Of Adam Shostack
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [Dataloss] Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's
DigitalDelinquency


This is exciting stuff, and is an example of how research can be done
when we share data.  He's making his data available--it's largely, but
not entirely, driven by the attrition data set.

See
http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/43/6-million-personal-records-comprom
ised-each-month-2-billion-in-total-by-december#more-43

Adam



On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:50:10PM -0400, Dissent wrote:
| http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070313114354.htm
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|
| If Phil Howard's calculations prove true, by year's end the 2
| billionth personal record -- some American's social-security or
| credit-card number, academic grades or medical history -- will become
| compromised, and it's corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are
| primarily to blame. By his reckoning, electronic records in the
| United States are bleeding at the rate of 6 million a month in 2007,
| up some 200,000 a month from last year.
|
| Howard, an assistant professor of communication at the University of
| Washington, bases his projections on a review of breached-record
| incidents as reported in major U.S. news media from 1980 to 2006. The
| total through last year stood at 1.9 billion -- or roughly nine
| records per American adult.
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