Network Solutions hacked, 573,000 accounts compromised

According to an article in Washington Post, Network Solutions was hacked, and information from 573,000 accounts were accessed by the hackers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/24/AR2009072403527.html

Twitter found itself having business secrets exposed here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/ after a hack of a username and password. The information stolen includes strategic meeting minutes, personal information and more.

The breach at Lexis Nexis where PII was stolen, is linked to the Mafia according to this article from internetnews.com: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3829911/LexisNexis+Breach+Linked+to+Mafia.htm

According to this article in Washington Post, SSNs can be guessed easily using publicly known information: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070602955.html. It is also covered inhis article from Fast Company explaining how information users post on Facebook can be used to reverse engineer their SSN: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/facebook-new-algorithm-can-guess-your-ssn

Methodology for deploying a protection program for sensitive information:

Titus Labs has announced that they are capable of using the new File Classification Infrastructure provided in Windows Server 2008 R2.