Ten Worst Techie Security Blunders of 2008

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Thanks to security group NCC for this one. Here they are the top ten security balls-ups last year:

 

The UK Ministry of Defence losing 72 hard drives, 62 laptops, 59 memory sticks and four desktop computers.

 

Computer systems of Barack Obama and John McCain hacked during the US presidential campaign.

 

Sarah Palin's Yahoo account breached.

 

Laptop sold on Ebay for £77 and was found to contain information on several million bank customers, originally held by archiving firm Graphic Data.

 

 AOL released 20m search records from 650,000 users, individuals at risk of ID fraud and worse.

 

PA Consulting lost e memory memory stick containing the details of 127,000 criminals in England and Wales.

 

Best Western's on-line booking system hacked containing details of 8m customers.

 

Facebook inadvertently disclosed 80 million users' date of birth.

 

38,000 credit card details were stolen after Cotton Traders suffered a web application-level hack.

 

Atos Origin, a UK government subcontractor left a memory stick holding passwords for a government computer system in the car park of a Staffordshire pub.

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How about letting BT buy the UK internet infrastructure from Hauwei and then requiring it to monitor and store information on our use of the internet.

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