President's helicopter Marine One details leaked!

I could probably keep this blog filled with all the data breaches happening these days, but that would be an exercise in futility -- there are just way too many to report, and for every one reported, there are probably hundreds that aren't.

One data breach, however seems particularly scary -- President Barack Obama's ride (when he's not flying in Air Force One) had its blueprints and details of its avionics package leaked. Tiversa, a company that monitors P2P networks, discovered the information on an IP address in Tehran, Iran, and traced the leak back to a defense contractor's computer in Bethesda, MD.

First, the person who installed this P2P sharing software should have known better. Second, the company should have these network sharing applications locked down, especially for anyone who has access to sensitive information. But we all know that where there's a will, there's a way. I'm sure this isn't the only sensitive military secret that's escaped from a computer on a P2P network.

Who knows what the P2P software on this computer was installed for -- most likely sharing music, but what if the person used it to share legitimate business information because it was the easiest way to get his or her job done? It just goes to show you that it's so important to have the tools in place, like a secure file transfer solution, so that employees don't resort to non-secure methods to share information.