the exclamake! blog

Here’s the deal. I do get irritated with the ‘media’ and ‘hype’. Because I’m in the network security arena, I frequently ask myself, is all the press about network attacks legitimate? Are the fears justified? Then I see something like this that settles it in my mind.
Some of you may remember [...]

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a Chronology of Data Breaches since the first ChoicePoint incident in February 2005.  I spent some time grouping the breaches into some similar categories and analyzing the cause of the breaches.  This analysis covers the report incidents from February 15, 2005 through March 14, 2006.
The categories I used are:

Backup Loss [...]

And along with the BC Government problems, we see that a Chinese bank server network was compromised as a launching pad for a phishing scam.  Again, it wasn’t the Chinese bank data wasn’t the primary target.  The phishers just wanted to use their network to host the phishing site, which then relayed your personal info [...]