Reminds me of McDonalds: “Over 1
Billion ill-served”
Over
One Billion Records Exposed According to Risk Based Security, Inc.
November 9, 2011 by admin
From the press release:
The slowdown in
the global economy has certainly not translated into a corresponding
slowdown in criminal efforts to compromise personal information,
according to Risk Based Security, Inc. The total number of records
exposed during the first 9 months of 2011 is 176,385,870 compared to
88,473,589 records for all of 2010. An even more alarming statistic
is that as of October 2011, there have now been over 1 billion
records exposed according to research by the Open Security
Foundation.
Risk Based
Security’s 3rd Quarter “Data Breach Intelligence” report just
released for customers shows that nearly 50 percent of the reported
data breaches in 2011 involved retail businesses, and those breaches
accounted for nearly 25 percent of the total records exposed so far
in 2011. Organizations providing medical related services accounted
for nearly 31 percent of the data breaches reported in the first nine
months of 2011. This same sector represented 29 percent of the
reported 2010 breaches.
The Data Breach
Intelligence report also revealed that a hack or computer-based
intrusion was responsible for 25 percent of the 2011 breaches,
totaling 147,496,666 records. This represents nearly 84 percent of
the total number of exposed records in 2011. Although
stolen laptops remains the number one breach type all-time, the hack
breach type has replaced stolen laptop at number one for the past two
years.
Read the rest of the release on
MarketWatch.
Was this inevitable?
Facebook
For The Famous
Backed by heavyweights in three
disparate industries--Amazon, CAA, and Greylock Partners--WhoSay.com
lets celebrities do something Twitter and Facebook don't: own their
online content.
… Twitter's Terms
of Service, (which are similar to Facebook's), state that "You
agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to make such
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who partner with Twitter for the syndication, broadcast, distribution
or publication… Such additional uses by Twitter, or other
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that you submit…" When you are a living brand, that lack of
compensation can rankle, especially if your work leads to someone
else's compensation at your expense.
Global Warming! Global Warming! What
is science, what is politics?
"As a follow up to the previous
slashdot story, there has been a new release by the International
Energy Agency indicating that within
5 years we will have irreversible climate change. According to
the IEA, 'There are few signs that the urgently needed change in
direction in global energy trends is under way. Although the
recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future
economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand
rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO2 emissions to a new
high. Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels
jumped to over $400bn (£250.7bn).'"
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