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Open Security Foundation To Maintain DataLossDB
An anonymous reader points out an announcement up at Attrition.org, that going forward their Data Loss Database will be taken over and maintained by the Open Security Foundation. From the news release: "...OSF is pleased to announce that the DataLossDB (also known as the Data Loss Database — Open Source [DLDOS] currently run by Attrition.org) will be formally maintained as an ongoing project under the OSF umbrella organization as of July 15, 2008... The project's core mission is to track the loss or theft of personally identifying information not just from the United States, but across the world. As of June 4, 2008, DataLossDB contains information on over 1,000 breaches of personal identifying information covering over 330 million records. The... DataLossDB will be free for download and use in non-profit work and research. The new website launch builds off of the current data set and provides an extensive list of new features."
Seriously? You named your project 'dildos'? You might want to rethink that acronym folks.
Isn't it better to just use Mysql?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
The modern countries that rely so heavily on credit systems underestimate this vulnerability as a whole to the economy. With companies not taking the proper precautions, and Pvt. schmuckately looking at pr0n while online banking, there needs to be A) more awareness raised by the government(or anyone for that matter) B) stricter regulations for companies holding sensitive data, and hence stricter punishment. Im no expert of course, but that just a couple ideas. One thing I worry about though is somehow this whole mess is going to get turned into some 1984 shit were the government has to monitor all credit activity for "our own good".
"It's ok, I'm completely secure as long as my iron is off"
"Global Open Access Theft Sharing Enterprise" was taken.
The Attrition guys put a lot of work into the database, it's become an authoritative archive of privacy and data security breaches used extensively by researchers in the field. They'd been considering closing it down, like they did their defacement archive. This is good news and I'd expect slashdot to see it that way, dildos or not!