Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'privacy'
EU Commissioners are proposing stronger consumer protections for software security and efficacy. Software industry advocates want no part of this. The EU was ahead of the US on privacy protections which are common place today so it is worth watching...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 12, 2009 9:28 AM
I've come to expect more from Supreme Court justices than I found in some recent comments by Justice Scalia regarding online privacy....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 4, 2009 9:02 AM
Check out the detailed article in Popular Mechanics entitled When Hackers Attack: Practicing Cybersecurity at Home....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 17, 2008 1:30 AM
Massachusetts is requiring a long list of security practices of companies with customers in Massachusetts....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 11, 2008 8:22 AM
Yesterday I posted on Richard Stallman's perplexing comments about the stupidity of cloud computing. Others are wondering about them too....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 30, 2008 10:40 PM
The Connecticut Attorney General is ripping into Bank of New York Mellon over missing tapes containing up to 12 million customer's personal information. In an earlier post I speculated that attorneys generals and other state officials must be getting tired...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 3, 2008 12:36 PM
Bank of New York Mellon experienced the loss of tapes as they were transported by a third party. The bank reported the tape may have contained unencrypted data on about 4.5 million people from 700 companies. That's a bad enough...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 29, 2008 8:20 AM
The LA Times story Public, private sectors at odds over cyber security is not your typical high profile security story. Rather than focus on a single data breach or a new vulnerability, it looks at the question of how to...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 26, 2008 7:53 AM
The September issue of Scientific American is dedicated to the future of privacy. Topics include:...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 21, 2008 7:16 PM
Governance, compliance and risk management (GCR) is a broad, demanding and sometimes intimidating topic but there are strategies for getting GCR under control. This podcast describes a seven step process for getting a GCR program started with an emphasis on...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 6, 2008 9:34 AM
The risk from insider attacks are highlighted this week by the well publicized San Francisco network admin who locked down the city's fiberWAN and also from the less noticed sentencing of a DBA for stealing and selling customer information. The...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 18, 2008 7:49 AM
Viacom wants data on YouTube viewers in its suit over copyright infringements and a US court has ordered Google to turn over data, including IP address, usernames and viewing history. So much for privacy policies....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 14, 2008 2:14 PM
CheckPoint has released a browser virtualization product to add a layer of security to Internet Explorer and Firefox. By blocking access to the registry and file system, the virtualized browser should prevent some malware from gaining a foot hold on...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 15, 2008 7:15 AM
Search engines, regulators, legislators and privacy advocates continue to try to balance competing interests of online advertisers and consumers. In this podcast we look into evolving regulations on search engines and how they track users browsing habits and collect personally...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on April 27, 2008 10:54 AM
E-discovery is the process of identifying, securing and analyzing electronic data for legal reasons. IT professionals may be called on to assist their colleagues in the legal profession. This podcasts examines what we can do from an IT perspective to...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on March 5, 2008 6:44 PM
The company that keeps your search records for 18 months, provides you free 411 directory assistance (800-GOOG411), an may soon send you location specific ads on your Android phone now wants to manage your healthcare records. Google is getting into...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on February 21, 2008 8:44 AM
A potential privacy storm is brewing in Europe over one of the most basic methods of tracking individuals on the Internet: a computer's IP address. Now of course IP addresses aren't tied to a particular person and they aren't even...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 22, 2008 9:21 AM
Douglas Frantz's article Spy vs. Spy in Portolio.com paints a fascinating look at the role of ex-intelligence agents in the private sector. Citing examples from WalMart and Oracle, Frantz shows how spy methods have found a home in the business...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 17, 2008 1:44 PM
Web 2.0 technologies can be exploited for identity theft in a couple of different ways. First, there is a harvest model of collecting information that is voluntarily posted to sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn; and second, there is...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 14, 2008 3:29 PM
You expect to start the new year with fresh ideas, big plans and maybe a resolution or two. What we don't want is a re-run of last years stories but it looks like that is just what we are getting....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 2, 2008 7:50 PM
The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released a survey entitled Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency (pdf) that finds not much concern about personal information available online. From a release about the...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 17, 2007 7:55 AM
Ask.com has taken a major step in the right direction for allowing users to protect their privacy. The search engine will provide a feature called AskEraser that will (mostly) erase their search queries. It's not a completely anonymous search service,...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 11, 2007 10:32 AM
If you are considering Google Apps, Zoho, ThinkFree or other online applications to replace or complement Microsoft Office, here are 12 things to consider before making the move. This podcasts groups the 12 topics into 3 broad categories: functionality, technical...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 13, 2007 2:56 PM
Rebecca Harold outlines common concerns about social networking in her post More Organizations Are Blocking Social Networking Sites To Address Information Security and Privacy Concerns. Most of the concerns center around security and confidentiality but Harold sees this is not...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 8, 2007 12:32 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is delving into questions of online privacy and advertising. The problem stems from the complexity of the policies and the fact that they can change at any time. Critics are voicing their concerns and getting more...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 5, 2007 1:44 PM
The Canadian government is staking steps to reduce the threat of identity theft according to Epoch Times: To combat this growing problem, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced last week that the government plans to criminalize identity theft and give police...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 12, 2007 12:40 PM
The New York Times article Securing Very Important Data: Your Own raises a number of interesting points about attitudes and privacy. It starts with how we are ready to trade personal information for convenience: But the newest generation of these...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 8, 2007 1:00 PM
Are you concerned about protecting your privacy online? This podcast provides tips on practices you can use your reduce the risk leaking private information while online as well as tools that can help protect against information collection techniques you might...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 2, 2007 9:14 AM
The Google/DoubleClick merger continues to plod along. Obviously privacy is a big issue and there is little consensus on this. Privacy advocates are rightly concerned about the abilities of a combined Google/DoubleClick behemoth tracking our Web activities. Google's answer, or...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on October 2, 2007 8:05 AM
A major French Telecom yesterday announced support for the OpenID lightweight identity management standard. Some people are really excited about this. I'm sorry to say a lot of those are probably phishers who are thinking the great Phishing Gold Rush...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 25, 2007 7:15 AM
Did you ever think privacy on the Internet is just on big crap shoot? And the only reason your own personal information hasn't been leaked or monitored is that it competes with so many other's personal information for attention? That...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 17, 2007 7:57 AM
InformationWeek is reporting on a new patent awarded to Microsoft for notifying users when the privacy policy of an service changes. The article notes that Microsoft won't user personal data if you don't accept the new policy. What it doesn't say is how your service might degrade if you don't. Will we lose features that "require" higher levels of disclosure? Here's the description of the process: The patented system automatically informs users if there is a change to the way in which Microsoft intends to use personal data embedded in the application, and then
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 12, 2007 1:20 PM
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Microsoft share holders to be patient, they are going to make a ton of money by monitoring you and pushing targeted advertising your way. Actually, he didn't say the part about monitoring you, the Microsoft...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 27, 2007 7:55 AM
The Post I.T. blog at the Washington Post is reporting the U.S. Congress is getting into P2P file sharing security. It seems some in Congress are ready to lay the blame for security leaks and data loss on the makers...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on July 26, 2007 8:55 AM
Laptop theft gets a lot of press because it is so easy to detect. More stealth thefts from databases aren't always as obvious; see the new article on 5 Things You Need to Know about SQL Injection Attacks. This hasn't...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on June 15, 2007 7:56 AM
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a good case study of security standards that try to address the wide breadth of security requirements while providing sometimes detailed implementation specifications. This podcasts examines the nature of PCI...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on June 12, 2007 1:20 PM
The TJX data breach saga continues. This has become a classic case study in how not to handle a data breach. There was the late disclosure about the breach, the rush to consultants to create a security strategy to prevent...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on June 11, 2007 7:49 AM
With estimates of 80% of all PCs infected with an average of 24 pieces of spyware, controlling spyware in the enterprise is a top priority in IT security. This podcast describes the spyware threat and five methods for controlling spyware....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 8, 2007 9:00 AM
Many of the articles and posts I've read on the Digg/HD-DVD encryption story sound as polarized as American politics these days. In some cases this is either a victory of a "power to the people" movement or it's mob rule....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 3, 2007 8:36 AM
Digg removing posts with a key for HD-DVD rights management struck a raw nerve. The comments around the Internet range from the "you can't copyright a number" to "its about censorship". Some of the best comments I saw are at...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 2, 2007 6:26 PM
Granted, there is plenty of bad news on the information security front, but it isn’t all bad. Security researchers are working on some fundamental issues, like privacy, in ways that should provide us with more tools in the (hopefully not...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 21, 2006 10:17 PM
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