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Date: Mon Jun 26 21:26:15 2006 From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl) Subject: Security Breaches Pandemic (1) links Al Mac wrote: > http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh062606-story06.html > > http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20060623DeloitteCallsOutTechFirmsOnSecurity.html > > http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=2902 > > http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/research/0,1015,sid%253D1000%2526cid%253D121102,00.html > <http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/research/0,1015,sid%3D1000%26cid%3D121102,00.html>Good > articles here, in which I am merely summarizing some main points. > Remember that Security Breaches have been occurring for decades. The only > thing, that is relatively new, is a legal mandate to report them, when this > affects residents of some USA states, and that is assuming the breached outfits > even know they been breached. For most of the world, this mandate does not yet > apply. So what we have recently been seeing in the news, about security > breaches, is just the tip of an iceberg. > The tip of what iceberg? Since "security breach" is never defined, it's impossible to know what D/T's survey means. Are these actual breakins to machines? Do they include virus infections? Adware infections? Phishing attempts? Etc., etc. Without defining what "security breach" means, it's useless information. -- Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5007 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20060626/896aa6e1/smime.bin
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