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Risky business

Risky business news Society | DOI:10.1145/2018396.2018404 Leah Hoffmann Risky Business Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution? N e W S A B o U t D AtA breaches has been everywhere this year, with each new incident seemingly worse than the previous one. An attack on direct marketer Epsilon put an estimated 60 million records at risk. An intrusion into International Monetary Fund servers may have exposed confidential data about national economies. Attacks from Jinan, China sought to compromise the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. government officials and others, while Lockheed Martin suffered œa significant and tenacious attack  of an as-yet unspecified scope. And then there ™s Sony. One million passwords were stolen from Sony Pictures, 77 million accounts were compromised at the company ™s PlayStation network, and 25 million records were breached at Sony Online Entertainment. Taken together, it is the largest data breach on record. Although the annual number of breaches has fallen over the past few years, according to the Open Security Foundation ™s DataLossDB, the stakes are higher than ever ”and there is a lot of work to be done to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Risky business

Hoffmann, Leah
Communications of the ACM , Volume 54 (11) – Nov 1, 2011
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Association for Computing Machinery
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10.1145/2018396.2018404
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news Society | DOI:10.1145/2018396.2018404 Leah Hoffmann Risky Business Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution? N e W S A B o U t D AtA breaches has been everywhere this year, with each new incident seemingly worse than the previous one. An attack on direct marketer Epsilon put an estimated 60 million records at risk. An intrusion into International Monetary Fund servers may have exposed confidential data about national economies. Attacks from Jinan, China sought to compromise the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. government officials and others, while Lockheed Martin suffered œa significant and tenacious attack  of an as-yet unspecified scope. And then there ™s Sony. One million passwords were stolen from Sony Pictures, 77 million accounts were compromised at the company ™s PlayStation network, and 25 million records were breached at Sony Online Entertainment. Taken together, it is the largest data breach on record. Although the annual number of breaches has fallen over the past few years, according to the Open Security Foundation ™s DataLossDB, the stakes are higher than ever ”and there is a lot of work to be done to

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