Another take on the Ponemon study. (I like the headline.)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20040861-245.html
Study: Negligence cause of most data breaches
Negligence is the biggest cause of data breaches at corporations, but criminal attacks are growing fastest, a study released today concludes.
The average cost of a data breach for a victimized organization increased to $7.2 million, and the average cost per record came to $214, up $10 from the previous year, according to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach, which was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and based on data supplied by 51 U.S. companies across 15 different industry sectors.
The costs associated with a breach involve detecting the incident, investigation, forensics, customer notification, paying for identity-protection services for victims, business disruption, and productivity losses, said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute.
… The most expensive breach reported in the study was $35.3 million, and the least expensive was $780,000.
The companies have devised an online Data Breach Calculator for helping estimate how likely a breach is and how much a breach would cost based on an organization's size, industry, location, and security practices.
(Related) Another paper worth a read?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026698.html
March 08, 2011
Civil Liberties and Industry Groups Release Cybersecurity White Paper
News release: "For the first time, industry groups and civil liberties interests have come together to advocate a comprehensive, common approach to cybersecurity. That approach is reflected in today's release of a cybersecurity white paper that rejects government mandates [No surprise. Bob] and advocates for a stronger partnership between industry and government. The 20-page white paper is a joint release from CDT, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Software Alliance, TechAmerica, and the Internet Security Alliance."
(Related)
Report: Number Of Malware-Infected Web Sites Has Doubled In Past Year
A new Dasient report says that the number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled in the past year. That means we’re now just short of 1.2 million Web sites out there infected with malware. Wonderful.
Big deal, you say. Some 1.2 million Web sites out of the entirety of the Web can’t be so bad, right? Well, that means that in about three months of Web surfing the average person now has a 95 percent chance of running into malware.
For my Computer Security and Forensics students.
Unmasking Anonymous Email Senders
"Just because you send an email anonymously doesn't mean people can't figure out who you are anymore. A new technique developed by researchers at Concordia University in Quebec could be used to unmask would-be anonymous emailers by sniffing out patterns in their writing style from use of all lowercase letters to common typos. Their research, published in the journal Digital Investigation, describes techniques that could be used to serve up evidence in court, giving law enforcement more detailed information than a simple IP address can produce."
[From the article:
Of course some might be concerned that the technique could be used to reveal identities of whistleblowers or others who have legitimate reasons for sending emails via publicly available tools for sending anonymous messages.
[The article:
http://www.dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p42-iqbal.pdf
For my Global Terrorism class.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Middle East Protests - Country by Country
Middle East Protests Country by Country is a clickable map of the middle east produced by the BBC. Click on any of countries on the map to get a quick overview of some basic information about that country. Below the map you will find a longer overview of the current state of affairs in each country and the "unrest index" as calculated by The Economist for each country.
The future or wishful thinking?
$39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois
The new $39.5 million Fountaindale Public Library features: flat-screen TVs, video games, self-checkout stations, a variety of e-readers, and a cafe. Library officials say the new facility is a blueprint for libraries of the future, and will focus on using new technologies. From the article:
"The Fountaindale Public Library, with its state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi equipped space, is starkly different from the previous antiquated library, a nearby one-story brick structure built in 1975 that awaits the wrecking ball. Officials are hopeful the new facility attracts a demographic libraries haven't seen in a number of years — young professionals."
(Related) Free is good (in the “Give them the razor, sell them the razor blades” sense.)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20040764-1.html
Amazon considering free Kindles for Prime members?
There are more rumors fluttering around Seattle that at some point, likely the holiday season of 2011, Amazon will start giving away its Kindle e-book reader for free, likely to select (as in Prime) members.
… Amazon doesn't make much money on the Kindle e-book reading device. And it's not supposed to; the hardware is a loss-leader that allows mobile access to--and binds customers to--Amazon's e-books store.
… If Amazon was betting on its hardware, it wouldn't have Kindle apps for the iPad, iPhone, and other devices. The money, as far as Amazon is concerned, is in selling books. The Kindle hardware is simply a conduit for this. It's the metaphorical chip to the e-book dip.
… But to really make the e-book expand past these readers, Amazon needs to reach out to those who won't pay $140 for a new (to them) technology.
Tools & Techniques
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/i2ocr-image-document-text/
I2ocr: Image Document Text Extractor
Thanks to OCR technology, you can convert images of text into text documents. This saves a lot of time retyping the same document. If you have a text-including image saved on your computer or have its URL, you can use i2OCR to extract the text from the image.
www.sciweavers.org/free-online-ocr
Similar tools: FreeOnlineOCR, Free-ORC and NewOCR.
Also read related articles:
How To Extract Text From Images (OCR) – Windows Only
Top 5 Free OCR Software Tools To Convert Images Into Text
3 Online OCR Services To Convert Scanned Docs To Text
Tools & Techniques Computer Security
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/jottiq-scan-suspicious-files-multiple-antivirus-apps-time/
JottiQ – Scan Suspicious Files Using Multiple Anti-Virus Apps At The Same Time
Whether you’re downloading movies (we know you do!), new music, software, or participating in some other activity that may or may not violate the Digital Media Copyright Act, you are potentially exposing your computer to corrupt files, malware, and viruses.
… There are a lot of different ways to scan the files you download to see if they are clean, but none quite like JottiQ. JottiQ takes advantage of Jotti’s online malware scanner, which uses multiple popular antivirus programs to scan your files, without having to download or install any of them.
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