February 2006 Entries

State of the Blog

This blog has been a real drag lately, and not just from where you're sitting. Truth be told, I've considered giving it up entirely lately.  As my name gets tossed around more often in more public circles, the more disciplined I have to be about what makes it to the blog.  And when I feel constrained, I don't feel like writing.  And then you have what I like to call “The Last 4 Months On This Blog“, where pretty much nothing compelling was written. Professionally, 2005 was outright awkward on the blogging scene.  Not only did a 1.5 year old story about a...

posted @ Monday, February 20, 2006 10:08 PM | Feedback (6)

3 incidents per week

A lot of noise has been made of the Choicepoint debacle of last year that exposed the personal records of, at last count, 170,000 individuals in America.  What you may not realize is that, for all the attention the incident garnered, it wasn't one of the top breaches of the year, based on the number of records exposed. The top 5 were all million+ records exposed, including the grand daddy of them all, Card Systems, with 40 million records exposed when hackers penetrated their systems in early 2005.  Next in line was Citi Financial, with 3.9 million records lost on a...

posted @ Monday, February 20, 2006 7:29 PM | Feedback (0)