Google, Inc., announced today that it will stop censoring its search results in China, and possibly pull out of the country completely, after it was discovered that Chinese hackers had tricked human rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders. According to The New York Times, the hackers were trying to break "into the computers […]
A Federal District Court judge ruled in December that personal e-mails from a government employee that were sent to his attorney from government computers is private, which challenges the popular notion that government employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy at work. Whenever I talk about expectations of privacy in the workplace, I am quick to point […]
Almost seven months ago to the day, President Obama announced that "[i]t is now clear this cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation…We’re not as prepared as we should be, both as a government or as a country." In response to that proclamation, it […]
In another example of how cyberwarfare is emerging as the third greatest threat to U.S. national security (behind Nuclear War and Weapons of Mass Destruction), The Wall Street Journal reported today, on its front page, that insurgents in Iraq and Afgahnistan have hacked into live video feeds of Predator Drones that provided the insurgents with […]
Many businesses across the U.S. are trying to strike a balance between the benefits and problems associated with using social media to drive their corporate communications. This can be particularly tricky, especially in the context of intense negotiations, where both sides try to leverage their position in order to drive public perceptions. Examples of this […]
The Federal Trade Commission held a conference on Monday, December 7, 2009, on technology and privacy, where companies like Google, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, et al, were invited to hash out what needs to be changed in regards to online privacy. Consumer advocate groups argue that people are unwilling to give up their privacy in exchange for […]
Mr. Daniel Castro, Senior Analyst, for the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, recently contributed a blog entry to The Huffington Post on the topic of information protection policies in the wake of the leakage of Congressional leaders facing ethical probes. This was a subject-matter in which I talked about in my blog back in October, […]
I found this blog by Mr. Ron Arden to be excellent, and wanted to add this to my blog…Please enjoy! Quote Why You May Not Have the Right Information Security Controls The 2008/09 annual report of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) revealed a lapse in email security. People in the organization sent confidential […]
Members of Congress are being investigated for possible ethics violations, and the names of those individuals under investigation were leaked when a junior staff member, working from home, improperly placed a document listing all the continuing inquiries into a file-sharing software system to which people outside the committee had access. The staff member, whose name […]
The Redmond-based software giant, Microsoft, Corp., (MSFT), announced today that it will be getting its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international standard for information security. Interestingly, Google, Inc., in a similar move has decided to get its suite of products certified by the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA) […]