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

BlackBerry data services suffered a four-day global outage in October of 2011 when its "dual-redundant, dual-capacity core switch" failed and its backup failed to activate, causing BlackBerry users around the world to either receive weak or no service at all. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis acknowledging the outage as the worst in the company's history, said, “You expect better from us and I expect better from us.”

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