In Pictures: The most mortifying moments in IT security history

From Lockheed Martin and HBGary Federal to the US government and Cornell University, no one is immune to humiliating security glitches

“Child porn is 50% of our criminal cases,” was what Steven Shirley, director of the Defense Cyber Crime Center, said in 2005 as he explained what his computer forensics lab deals with when contacted by military investigators to analyze digital evidence in military computers.

Credit: Romeo Ranoco / Reuters

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