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Archive for the 'Privacy' Category

Mobile malware research

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

I am currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Information Assurance (MSIA) through Norwich University and would like to share one of the papers that I prepared for last semester.  The paper sums up quite a bit of research on mobile malware, its history, and what the future holds.  In addition, I intend to make this […]

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Expressions of Privacy

Monday, January 8th, 2007

I ran across a very interesting article on Economist.com that discusses how rules regarding the sharing of private information can be expressed logically. The article’s title is The logic of privacy: A new way to think about computing and personal information.
Here is an excerpt to wet your appetite:
For example, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act states that “a […]

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Still Secure podcast year-end commentary

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

Alan Shimel was nice enough to invite me to provide a one-minute audio clip summarizing what I thought the biggest story in 2006 was. Others who offered up their clips include:

Martin McKeay — McKeay.com
Michael Farnum — Information Security Place
Ravi Char — Musings on Information Security
Larry Pesce — Paul Dot Com
AndyIT Guy — Andy […]

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Eroding privacy

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I ran across a good article by Steve Kerrison about how social networking sites over-zealous bloggers are contributing to the erosion of privacy.
Steve warns his readers that anything posted will likely be accessible far into the future. So, while people may want to post opinions and escapades for their online ‘friends,’ they need […]

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Ryan Singel and Kevin Poulsen just put out a blog posting noting that we have just passed the 100 million mark for lost/stolen records which contain personal information.
This is, of course, only a milestone if one chooses to accept the ChoicePoint breach as the starting point for counting such losses. While, due to […]

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