Great Firewall Maybe Not So Great
Australia has announced plans to implement mandatory content filtering by its internet service providers for certain kinds of web content, essentially attempting to block all Australian internet users from these categories of sites. (See Yahoo article here) China had attempted this sort of thing earlier in 2009, but placed its plans on hold. These plans [...]
Seeing Red
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated regulations to help reduce consumer identity theft back in 2007, with implementation of these rules for “creditors” and national banks to begin in 2008 (and then 2009, now November 1, 2009 for certain kinds of creditors). (See the Red Flags Rule here)
Identity theft is a real problem for people [...]
Facebook and Twitter: Implications for Your Business?
Technology presents us with new opportunities and challenges on a regular basis. Social networks and other “web 2.0” applications are starting to make inroads into the mainstream of the internet (ask how many of your iPhone-using friends have apps for one or both of these to measure the reality of the hype). As a result, [...]
Lost Data in the Cloud: How Sad
The headlines are ablaze because somebody over at the company, Danger, upgraded a storage array without making a backup, and voila – bye bye T-Mobile contact data. (See the article on The Washington Post here) Nik Cubrilovic’s point in his article is that data has a natural lifecycle, and you should be able to survive [...]
Big Dilemmas for Web Security
The federal government is getting into the fray over internet security in a national crisis. (See Yahoo Article here) A Senate committee considered and then promptly dropped language in a cybercrime bill that would have authorized the President to shut down internet traffic to compromised web sites. This comes in the larger context of trying [...]
Ant CyberSecurity
Ants in one’s kitchen can be a pest (and a difficult one to resolve once the ants have found something good to eat), but ants may have a more constructive future annoying cyberthreats in digital form. Haack, Fink, et al. have written a paper on using ant techniques for monitoring and responding to technical security [...]
iPhone Security and Corporate Networks
Some brouhaha has been brewing over how the iPhone addresses encryption with Microsoft Exchange. (See the Article Here on Infoworld). According to InfoWorld, iPhones prior to version 3.1 of the OS did not accurately report whether they supported encryption locally of data stored on the iPhone. For some corporate networks, encryption is mandated for devices [...]
Cloud Computing and Other Buzz Words
The technology that drives health care today is changing in response to increase concerns about security and reliability, and external regulations like the security regulations in HIPAA. In addition, the HiTech portion of the stimulus law this year has provided incentives for health care providers to adopt technology that allows for health data exchange and [...]
Green IT: How Virtualization can Save Earth and Your Butt
Technology continues to evolve, providing people with new functionality, features, information, and entertainment. According to Ray Kurzweil, a number of metrics for computer performance and capacity indicate that our technology is expanding at a linear or exponential rate. Sadly, the physical manifestations of technology are also helping to destroy the planet and poison our clean [...]
How Virtualization Can Help Your DR Plan
Virtualizing your servers can help you to improve your readiness to respond to disasters, such as fires, floods, virus attacks, power outages, and the like. Popular solutions, such as VMWare’s ESX virtualization products, in combination with data replication to a remote facility, or backups using a third party application like vRanger can help speed up [...]
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