Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Shettler <dave (at) opensecurityfoundation.org> Subject: [Dataloss] contest: Find The Oldest Known Data Loss Incident! Announcing our first ever contest, generously sponsored by CREDANT, AON TechShield, Arcsight, ITAC Sentinel, and StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. Find and submit the oldest data loss incidents you can, and you might get some great prizes in the process! See this link for full contest details: http://datalossdb.org/oldest_incidents_contest First, a little history about the competition: In 2005, the Open Security Foundation launched the Oldest Vulnerability contest for one of our other projects, the Open Source Vulnerability Database, and from it came vulnerabilities dating back as far as 1965. Submissions will be accepted starting at midnight CST, April 1st, 2009 through 11:59pm CST, May 15th, 2009. Incidents must have resulted in a breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Specifically, incidents must have resulted in the loss of one or more of the below: * Social Security Numbers (or National ID) * Credit Card Numbers * Bank Account Numbers * Medical Records First Prize goes to the oldest incident found, and consists of: * A Mac Mini - Valued at $599.00 * $250.00 USD American Express Gift Card * Plus More... There are also second and third prizes, so please visit: http://datalossdb.org/oldest_incidents_contest If you have any questions about this contest that are not answered on the contest page or in this email, please contact curators at datalossdb.org With that said, please DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS EMAIL. Mail the curators@ address. All replies to this email or sent to the dataloss@ address will be rejected, quite possibly with a snarky comment, finger-pointing, and giggling. _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Tue Apr 07 2009 - 01:25:23 PDT
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