- Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.
- A recording of a confidential conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement officers at the Metropolitan Police has been released by Anonymous on the internet. (continue reading...)
- 1136 victims of crime have had their email addresses inadvertently shared with one another, according to reports.
- A company claims it can bypass Apple's FileVault 2 disk encryption "in minutes," as well as volumes encrypted with TrueCrypt.
- Facebook has finally filed for its IPO, but there are interesting details in the paperwork. It considers malware, spam and privacy concerns as serious risks to its investors. (continue reading...)
- Six scientists and doctors filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week for secretly monitoring their personal email accounts.
- Google is rolling out a new privacy policy on March 1st, 2012. In this article I sum up the changes and provide information on how to control your Google privacy settings. (continue reading...)
- An interesting juxtaposition: the FBI's quest for a social media data mining application vs. the FTC taking Facebook and Google to task over privacy transgressions. Should the agencies settle it via Jello wrestling? (continue reading...)
- Over 50% of people polled said they are worried about the Facebook Timeline.
But will it be the catalyst for people to leave the site?
- Police in the US use XBox 360 and PS3s as key parts of investigations. With police now cooperating more closely with companies like Microsoft, is it time to ask for greater transparency about their relationships? (continue reading...)
- Google says it will start tracking us across all its services - Gmail, Search, YouTube, etc. - and that it will share data on our activity across all of them. Does it put into question (continue reading...)
- We know you're probably sceptical of "state of the world" reports from vendors. For all you can tell, they'll turn out to be thinly-digsuised advertorial, unreconstructed product brochures, or worse.
We like to do (continue reading...)
- O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network.
But users of other mobile (continue reading...)
- Videoconferencing equipment is often left wide open for hackers to creep in and peep around organizations.
- In a bizarre marketing move, AnonyUpload explains why it's rubbish and that it's not a replacement for MegaUpload.
- Chet sits down with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to discuss Data Privacy Day. Michael explains the origin of Data Privacy Day, some of the activities related to it (continue reading...)
- On the heels of the Zappos cyber robbery last Sunday that left 24M customers fretting over stolen passwords and email addresses, articles are being (continue reading...)
- A popular smartphone app used by the gay community to hook-up with similarly-minded people in their vicinity suffers from a serious security vulnerability that could expose personal information and explicit photos that they have been (continue reading...)
- Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some (continue reading...)
- A new survey finds that 56% are likely to check out the social media profiles of potential employees.
If you want to avoid limiting your career progression, it might be time to clean-up your social networking (continue reading...)