Sunday, August 23, 2009

Data breach news and analysis

Folks at Open Security Foundation have started a new web site BreachCenter.com which will offer news and analysis on the various data breaches. From the announcement,  
"BreachCenter.com is a free and dynamic community of interest dedicated to helping companies mitigate the damages associated with the loss of personally identifiable information. We provide news, opinions, expert analysis, white papers, dialogue and reviews on data breach recovery."  


Following are some other sites where we can get data breach and identity theft information.  
http://datalossdb.org  
http://www.privacyrights.org  
http://zone-h.org  
www.voltage.com/data-breach  
http://attrition.org/dataloss (pre 2008)  


FTC lists the cases involving the privacy of consumer information under Section 5 of the FTC Act: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/promises_enf.html http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/privacyinitiatives/safeguards_enf.html

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