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Google finds much more efficient way to sell the privacy of its most dedicated users

Posted January 25, 2012 - 5:12 pm

It's not true that it's not possible to opt out of Google's new policy of combining all customer data from almost all its services. It's possible, but not easy. The point is to build more realistic profiles for ad targeting and marketing; if Google let you opt out, how could it sell your soul?
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SF college tries to estimate damage from 12 uninterrupted years of virus infection

Posted January 21, 2012 - 8:00 am

City College of San Francisco is trying to assess the potential damage from a keylogging, financial-data-stealing set of viruses that first infected the college's systems in 1999, scouring the network nightly and sending data to more than 700 IP addresses in 10 countrties.
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Beaming information onto the brain: Learning like Kung Fu Keanu in The Matrix

Posted January 20, 2012 - 6:32 pm

Scientists researching how information is imprinted on the brain found a way to decode functional MRI patterns and replay them onto the brain. Could it lead to learning by data dump the way Keanu learned Kung Fu in The Matrix? Only if our brains decide to cooperate. So: no.
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Settlements in phone hack scandal nets big pay day for aides, publicists, relatives

Posted January 19, 2012 - 6:47 pm

British actor Jude Law was the highest-profile of the stars who settled 35 of 60 phone hacking suits with News Corp. this week. Oft-hacked publicist Max Clifford got £1M, compared to £130,000 for law. Family of murdered teen got £2 million.
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The most frustrating job in corporate IT security

Posted January 19, 2012 - 4:14 pm

New studies show SharePoint continuing to grow as a tool to let end users share documents securely. Unfortunately, most of them seem to feel entitled to take those documents out of SharePoint security and even mail them to third parties, removing all security permanently.
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Massive SOPA/PIPA protest shift momentum in Senate, but not enough

Posted January 19, 2012 - 2:08 pm

The massive protest and letter-writing campaign organized by Reddit, Google, Wikipedia and a host of civil rights and Internet-openness advocates changed at least 13 senators' votes from 'yes' to 'no' on Internet-censoring PIPA, but majority is still 'yes' or 'undecided.'
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Corporates struggle to secure employee mobile devices

Posted January 19, 2012 - 10:45 am

The number of employee-owned mobile devices used on corporate networks continues its inexorable rise despite yawning and known gaps in security, a Check Point survey has found.
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Best evidence showing we need SOPA based on 'govt studies' that never existed

Posted January 18, 2012 - 6:21 pm

For more than 20 years the entertainment industry has been basing estimates of content-piracy losses on numbers used in speeches but never found in actual studies. Winnowing through the rhetoric, one analyst found movie-industry losses are more like $90 million (with an M, not a B)
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HTC phone update reportedly drops Carrier IQ software

Posted January 18, 2012 - 4:00 pm

Carrier IQ's performance monitoring software has been deleted from the latest firmware update for the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, at the behest of Sprint, according to a post at AndroidCentral. Many more could follow.
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Why argue over SOPA, PIPA if they wouldn't do anything to stop content piracy anyway?

Posted January 18, 2012 - 1:19 pm

The SOPA and PIPA bills introduced in Congress are advertised as ways to stop illegal distribution of copyrighted content overseas, but all they do is make foreign sites harder for Americans to reach. Even their worst punishments won't stop a single foreign download.
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Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

Posted January 18, 2012 - 12:31 pm

A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
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A CFO's take on this BYOD thing

Posted January 17, 2012 - 9:07 pm

In a nutshell: The ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices has changed the way many enterprise users deploy technology, with an ever-increasing body of employees now bringing their own devices into work with them. The enterprise, meanwhile, focuses on ensuring its data is available securely to these devices. So, how prevalent is this trend really?
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New options to waterproof your smartphone?

Posted January 17, 2012 - 1:03 pm

There were two companies at the Consumer Electronics Show pitching carriers and phone makers on essentially the same product: a plastic-ish coating applied as a vapor to coat ever surface, inside and out. One, Liquipel, will do it for consumers who send in their phones.
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Indian court refuses to direct Election Commission on paper records on EVMs

Posted January 17, 2012 - 9:52 am

A court in Delhi on Tuesday declined to direct India's Election Commission to have paper receipts of votes recorded on electronic voting machines (EVMs), or go back to ballot paper.
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Death of SOPA may be only big victory for individual rights online in 2012

Posted January 16, 2012 - 2:38 pm

SOPA's assumption of guilt provisions were outrageously unconstitutional, but didn't emerge from a vacuum. In 2012 it seems as if cops, marketers, social networkers, service providers or anyone else with a use for private data claims the right to take it, or just the ability.
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10 questions for Skybox Security CFO Lior Barak

Posted January 16, 2012 - 9:09 am

Name: Lior Barak
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4 Google social search tips for control and privacy

Posted January 14, 2012 - 8:10 am

Google's controversial search update brings content from Google+ to the forefront of your search results. Here's what you need to know.
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Which is worse: Leaking secret cables for a good cause or urinating on Taliban for a bad one?

Posted January 13, 2012 - 5:33 pm

Bradley Manning is charged with one of the largest thefts of classified data ever, allegedly to oppose illegal killing, detention and torture of prisoners. Four Marines allegedly urinated on dead Taliban, for less noble reasons. Given the choice of just one, which would you prosecute?
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LAPD drops Google Apps plan

Posted January 13, 2012 - 4:26 pm

After more than two years of work, the city of Los Angeles has abandoned its effort to migrate its police operations to Google's hosted email and office application platform because it says the service cannot meet FBI security requirements. Insider (registration required)
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Oracle to issue 78 patches, including 27 for MySQL

Posted January 13, 2012 - 12:46 pm

Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company's website this week.
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Android insecurity a myth, Motorola exec says

Posted January 13, 2012 - 7:29 am

It's a myth that Android isn't secure and is difficult for IT managers to control, contended a top Motorola Mobile executive in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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IBM software eases role-based security operations

Posted January 12, 2012 - 9:50 pm

IBM this week announced an identity-management analytics tool that eases what can be a tedious job for information-technology managers -- defining roles for employees in order to establish policy-based access to a network and application resources.
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GAO: DHS floods critical industries with irrelevant cybersecurity advice

Posted January 12, 2012 - 6:58 pm

When the president ordered DHS to provide cybersecurity guidance to seven industries that make up the critical infrastructure,' it responded, according to a GAO report, with a ton of data and advice that didn't take into account regulations and standards that make advice that is basic for one irrelevant to the others.
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Cisco sending enterprises to the cloud

Posted January 12, 2012 - 5:27 pm

In an effort to accommodate enterprise users looking to implement private and hybrid clouds, Cisco in the coming months will unveil an "integrated" WAN routing system of existing, but enhanced, products.
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Best mobile data platform: New CES gadget? Or penknife you started carrying as a kid?

Posted January 11, 2012 - 4:59 pm

I used to think adding LEDs, lasers, USB flash drives and other digitized add-ons was gratuitous and anomalousuntil I realized how many people carry one without thinking about it and that having data with you without having to remember is the key to real mobile computing.
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