On July 2, 2009, NetworkWorld published an article entitled, "Gartner: Seven Cloud-Computing Security Risks." A brief synopsis of the article is that, according to Gartner, "Cloud Computing" is fraught with lots of tangible and intangible risks. They suggest that a security assessment from a neutral third-party be conducted before an organization commits to a […]
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Right to Privacy is interpreted under the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of "unreasonable searches and seizures" clause. But, does that extend to private companies doing business in the U.S.? Conversely, in Canada, its Constitution establishes a Right to Privacy per se, stating that all Canadian citizens’ are entitled to their privacy. […]
Online behavioral advertising is supposed to match our search queries with products that advertisers think we would be interested in buying. However, if most people were told that their search habits were being monitored for advertising purposes (or so they would say), and then sold to the highest bidder without our knowledge or consent […]
If a cyber-terrorist wants to bring down an entire corporate infrastructure by means of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, the odds are in their favor of not being caught. What does that mean to a business? Simply put, they get stuck holding the bag, while the real culprits are never located. According […]
The age old axiom in Property Law is: Ownership is 9/10’s of the law. No where is this more true than what is playing out between Twitter and TechCrunch over confidential documents that were obtained by the blog, TechCrunch, from someone who had hacked into Twitter’s server’s using a simple password of an […]
Passwords are an important part of the world we live in today. Everything from our e-mail account(s) to our online banking and business database point of entry are password protected. This has caused many of us to use the same password time and time again (in the hopes that we don’t show our true […]