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

“Obviously that aperture went too wide,” - Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2010 following the WikiLeaks posting of 75,000 records from the Afghan war and another leak of 400,000 Army field reports from Iraq.

Credit: Reuters

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