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Category Archives: Privacy

Was Citi Sleeping? Could Functional Security Testing Have Saved the Day?

– Do you remember reading over the summer about Citigroup having a security hole in an iPhone app, which stored all manner of nonpublic personal information in a file? … and that the data could then be transferred to a PC? In the Technology section of the July 27, 2010 The Wall Street…

Are We Busy Doing Nothing?

– You must read the hair-raising article by Greg Shipley in the October 11, 2010 issue of InformationWeek titled “Epic Fail.” The article is featured on the cover of the magazine with the words “The Wrong Protection: We’ve spent billions on security products, so why are we so ill-prepared…

Privacy? What Privacy?

– It is unusual for the popular (as opposed to technical) press and particularly for The Wall Street Journal to publish a multipart series on the topic of privacy. But the WSJ did it in “What They Know: A Wall Street Journal Investigation” And I think they did a pretty good job. You can find…

Blaming the CISO … Yet Again

– Update:  Since I began writing this column, which discussed AT&T’s iPad issue, AT&T was reported to have experienced another privacy breach, this time during the heavy use of its registration site when the latest model of the iPhone became available. This was reported in The Wall…

Privacy NO More

– The biggest scare at this years IANS event was not news about botnet attacks from Belarus or data leaks, but the increased scrutiny by Human Resource Departments of prospective candidates to include social media. So, do not be surprised when you are asked during an interview to provide…