The Ten Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online
End users -- god bless 'em. You can't live with 'em -- but without them, you wouldn't have a job. They're the reason you have an IT infrastructure; they're also the single greatest threat to the security of that infrastructure.
Feds Often Clueless After Data Losses
Federal agencies not only regularly lose personal identity data, but don"t even always know what they"ve lost or how many Americans are affected, a recently-released House report claimed. According to the report issued by the House Government Reform Comm...
Steal my ID, steal my fingers - the public gets nervous
The public fears losing their fingers to ruthless biometric ID thieves in the fingerprint-controlled future, apparently. Or at least, so says Frost & Sullivan analyst Sapna Capoor, who argued unconvincingly that "A dead finger is no good to a thief." ...
US: Terrorists telecommuting to work
Michael Chertoff, head of US Homeland Security, warned that people don"t need to travel to a country with "-stan" in its name to become radicalized and commit acts of violence. Instead, they can now turn to the Internet. "They can train themselves over the...
Microsoft releases guidelines for customer privacy
Criticized in the past for an initiative that would require the company to collect and catalog personal information about its customers, Microsoft on Wednesday released an internal document about how it protects customers" privacy in the hopes other compan...
EU needs RFID privacy regs, study finds
The European Union needs to consider adopting a solid legal framework to ensure that the use of radio frequency identification technology does not infringe on privacy, a top official of the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU, told an RFID ...
Justice task force looks into privacy
A task force has issued a series of recommendations regarding privacy in justice information systems. The Privacy Technology Focus Group was chartered to examine the exchange of personally identifiable information, focusing on justice and public safety d...