Yesterday while I was in the middle of my PRINCE2 course I ducked outside (literally outside in the freezing Melbourne wind) for 30 minutes to participate in The Scoop podcast for MIS Australia hosted by Mark Jones. The topic Generation V, or generation virtual. I was a little uncertain what to expect as the fellow [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
Tags:
Once again more HR data has been stolen, and guess what again it was not encrypted!
This time Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an HR outsourcing vendor, had data for many of it’s clients stolen in a burglary on May 26. The clients affected include Google and CBS’ CNET Networks. The data stolen in the burglary included [...]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Tags:
Standford University is the latest large organisation to be involved in unintentional leaking of personal data. A laptop was stolen that contained the personal details of 62,000 former and current employees. The data included:-
Name, gender, date of birth
Social Security number
Salary, business title, office location, office phone number, and e-mail address while employed by Stanford
Home address [...]
Popularity: 18% [?]
Tags:
A follow up post, I found a few more articles on this whole censorship issue in Australia from numerous sources and some more thoughts.
There has been a huge discussion on Twitter between social media and web folks who I personally consider experts in the online world but many of them seem confused. Not good. Some [...]
Popularity: 60% [?]
Tags:
The new Labour Government had announced there intend as part of the election campaign to introduce filtering of the internet and on Dec 31st they provided further details on what would be happening with mandatory filtering of the Internet by ISPs.
Senator Conroy says it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean [...]
Popularity: 68% [?]
Tags:
Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard about the sites called Facebook, or MySpace, and their professional cousin LinkedIn, you might even remember their predecessors Friendster. These sites are basically social network software/service (SNS) where you connect with other people and share information.
Today I read a great article by Cory [...]
Popularity: 48% [?]
Tags:
I haven’t written about data privacy in a while but I could not help it. The “little” issue in the UK in the last couple of days has brought the topic back up. The UK Taxman has “misplaced” 2 CDs full of personal and banking details of about 25 million people. To make matters worse [...]
Popularity: 59% [?]
Tags:
Privacy of your employee and customer data should be one of the top priorities of any board for any organisation. However sometimes C level exec’s are more interested in things right in front of them, like this quarters sales or the new product introduction.
To get them to pay attention you sometimes need to be [...]
Popularity: 23% [?]
Tags:
I found this very disturbing article from Techmemeorandum about using social engineering to compromise an organisations security defences, the troubling part about this example was how easily the defences were breached. As seen in this quote they had 75% success rate allowing them access to a vast number of systems in the target organisation.
After [...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Tags:
It has been a while since I tapped out a post on security and privacy but today I read several posts that got me inspired again.
Bruce Schneier (thanks for Kim Cameron for the pointer) picked up on the two sets of stolen keys for the Sydney train system that allowed the thieves access to all [...]
Popularity: 12% [?]
Tags:
