First off, Happy New Year!  2008 was a wild ride for many organizations that continue to struggle to keep their data secure.  Here’s an analysis of over 310 data loss incidents on record for 2008:
Businesses (B2B and B2C) beat out education, government, and medical fields (see Chart 1) as the leading sector for data loss [...]

BankInfoSecurity did a nice writeup on the Top 10 Security Breaches of 2008.  The lessons learned sections are of particular interest.  Numbers 2 and 4 are my favorites.

I’ve begun some trend analysis on data leaks.  Check it out…
Data leaks by universities continue to trend high as 5 new schools (Harvard Law School, Texas A&M, Sinclair Community College, University of Florida, and Weber State University) reported incidents resulting in more than 360,000 total records lost. Universities continue to be the leading source of [...]