Data Breach Study Spanning 500 Break-Ins Released

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."

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Re:Middle East

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Actually (and I'm no fan of Israel - got mercilessly modded down a few days ago for making anti-Zionist points), a lot of the defacements are from pro-Palestinian groups.

Unfortunately Zone-H is down at present, but when it's up I invite you to check for yourself.