[ga] Governments accounted for 1 out of 5 breaches that exposed private data

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Let us all hope that the Vietnamese government will take the
appropriate notice to the following given it's recent decision...

  For your information and in some cases, education:

The number of security breaches that exposed personal identifiable
information in government systems in 2008 was far below what the private
sector reported, according to a series of reports released by a consumer
protection organization
on Tuesday.

   Of the 656 security breaches reported last year, 16.8 percent
occurred in systems operated by state, local and federal governments,
including military networks, according to a compilation of reports
released by the Identity Theft Resource
Center.

   The number of breaches reported in 2008 increased 47 percent compared
with 2007. But the percentage of incidents the government reported
decreased in 2008, dropping from 24.5 percent of the total breaches
reported.

     Full story:
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090107_5089.php?zone=ngtoday

Regards,

Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 284k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln
"YES WE CAN!"  Barack ( Berry ) Obama

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS.
div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail
jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Phone: 214-244-4827