Sep 11, 2012 – ASIS 58 Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security and Liberty, Session 3183 http://www.asis2012.org/Pages/Seminar-Home-Page.aspx Social Media has quickly woven itself into the very […]
Yes, Girls Around Me – the app, is gone. For now. It wasn’t illegal, but it creeped people out. What I find amusing is that while these guys creeped people […]
Here’s a fantastic summary of the Phoenix Cardiac Surgery Group’s landmark HIPAA Violations penalty & settlement. The days of small medical practices thinking they were too small for enforcement are […]
Here’s a fascinating article from Phys.org on how the US DOJ is getting cellular location data from cell carriers (neatly bypassing the 4th amendment protections) and how technology has increased […]
A fascinating article in the NY TIMES sheds light on why spammers and malware peddlers aren’t billionaires…it seems that the cybecrime loss stats are skewed. Yet in terms of economics, […]
In a rare show of honesty, Sergey Brin admitted that their data that was now in the reach of US authorities because it sits on Google’s servers. He said the […]
Utilities are used to deploying electric meters that last 20-30 years in the field. They are also deploying “smart” meters to enable variable pricing and cut down on their projected […]
All of us have experienced Patch-Tuesdays, when we come into work and find our desktops & laptops rebooted due to mandatory Microsoft patches. Imagine starting your car and finding […]
In the EU-vs-Facebook cases, Facebook has sent european citizens 800 PAGES of documents. In the US, a subpeona merits 62 pages. So, either the Craigslist killer didn’t use […]
WOW! Even the Wall Street Journal thinks Facebook’s data collection, data profiling and app-sharing is out of control. From the 4/9/12 WSJ column: A Wall Street Journal examination of […]
