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+-   Data-Breach Study Spanning 500 Break-Ins Released-> on Wednesday June 11 2008, @06:41PM Dr. Jim Anderson

Submitted by Dr. Jim Anderson on Wednesday June 11 2008, @06:41PM
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Dr. Jim Anderson writes "The good folks over at Verizon Business have released a report that summarizes what they've found after looking through 500 forensic investigations involving 230 million records, and analyzes hundreds of corporate breaches including three of the five largest ones ever reported. What did they find? How about (1) Nearly nine in 10 corporate data breaches could have been prevented had reasonable security measures been in place, (2) Fewer than 25 percent of attacks took advantage of a known or unknown vulnerability and (3) attacks from Asia, particularly in China and Vietnam, often involve application exploits leading to data compromise, while defacements frequently originate from the Middle East. Seems like we all need to find a way to communicate just a little bit more carefully."
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