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) […]
A strong majority of courts across the United States, both federal and state, have taken a common stance when it comes to addressing data breaches related to customer financial information (i.e. name, address, social security number, credit card numbers, etc.). They have stated that the plaintiff’s who have had their personally identifiable information (or "PII") breached as […]
Imagine one of the following scenarios: (1) details about ABC Company’s latest strategic development plan has ended up on a popular Internet Web Site, to which ABC Company is now forced to scrap the plans that could have gained them substantial leverage in the marketplace; or (2) corporate financial data was inadvertently sent to […]
In The New York Times today, Steve Lohr wrote an article about how the drive towards making patient records available online has taken a huge step forward by a major New York regional hospital group, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. The group plans on offering its affiliated doctors subsidies of up to $40,000 […]
Back on June 30th of this year, I wrote a blog entry about how shocked I was to see a sign posted on the city limits of Medina, WA, which informed all incoming motorists that they are being "watched" by Medina city officials. As a follow up to what I reported back in June, a […]
The New York Times reported today that over the weekend an unknown group of people placed a rogue advertisement onto the Web site’s homepage. The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people who visited the site. In a common scheme used by hackers, the users were "invited" to download a program to […]