CSI/FBI: Violations, Losses Down
If you think your company has actually experienced fewer security violations in the last year than it did the year before, and lost less money as a result, you"re not crazy. In fact, according to a new report that will be issued tomorrow by the FBI and the...
Marnlen to Embrace IBM Invention for Privacy-Enabled Product Tracking Labels
IBM and Marnlen RFiD announced a new collaboration on the next critical step of enabling consumer privacy protection for RFID tags -- the potential production of smart radio frequency identification (RFID) labels using IBM Research"s Clipped Tag privacy te...
"Digital Dirt" Derailing Job Seekers
More than one-third of employers have eliminated a candidate after digging up "digital dirt," according to ExecuNet. In a recent survey of 100 executive recruiters, 35 percent said they dropped a job candidate because of information uncovered online. Tha...
NIPP may not address realities of information security
CISOs looking for guidance from the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) released on June 30 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may be scratching their heads for some time to come. The final NIPP (.pdf), published after two earlier dra...
Illinois Aims To Protect Consumer Privacy, Outlaws "Pretexting"
Illinois became one of the first states in the nation to make it illegal to pretend to be an account holder in order to gain cell phone records and other personal information, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. EPIC praised Gov. Rod ...
Data Brokers Draw Increased Scrutiny
The buying and selling of customer data is a multibillion-dollar, unregulated business that"s growing larger by the day. Companies are selling information about you, and your company is probably selling data about its customers. Consumers are growing more ...
Prosecutors: UBS Sys Admin Believed "He Had Created The Perfect Crime"
NEWARK, N.J.--In closing arguments, the prosecution told the jury Monday that the former systems administrator accused of planting a logic bomb on the UBS PaineWebber network four years ago thought he had committed the perfect crime -- mixing revenge with ...