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• Police Tapped Sprint Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times In A Year

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 163
  by Justin Elliott TPM Muckraker Under a new system set up by Sprint, law enforcement agencies have gotten GPS data from the company about its wireless customers 8 million times in about a year, raising a host of questions about consumer privacy, transparency, and oversight of how police obtain location data. What ...
  14 hours ago

• Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Laton McCartney , Editor at CIOZone Every week for the past four years the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRCH), an organization dedicated to empowering consumers and protecting privacy, has been chronicling data breaches on a weekly basis. These range from small, regional breaches, ...
  1 day ago

• MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Identity is a simple concept that has become a complex problem. It has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money and the ease of obtaining credit and taking over an account. Because identity has yet to be effectively established, anyone can be you. ...
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• Patient Privacy Rights Prepares Report Card on PHRs (Personal Health Records)

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  This report card was based on what was determined to be privacy protection.  Below I have listed the comments about using an employer or insurer PHR as stated on the report card you may be giving up some privacy with others having access with waivers or surveys that come with using the program.  According to the ...
  2 days ago

• ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor The Internet Security Alliance held a luncheon at the National Press Club today to unveil their much anticipated recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration regarding the future course of national cybersecurity ...
  2 days ago

• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
  3 days ago

• Thanks to Sprint, the Cops May Have a GPS Fix on You

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 715
  Most mobile phones have tiny GPS chips that do things like give directions or route your call to the right city when you dial 911. It turns out that law enforcement can ask phone companies for GPS info that reveals exactly where a phone owner is, and, according to a disturbing piece of audio making the rounds, the ...
  3 days ago

• ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor The Internet Security Alliance held a luncheon at the National Press Club today to unveil their much anticipated recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration regarding the future course of national cybersecurity ...
  3 days ago

• Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  By Kim Zetter December 1, 2009 Wired Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian ...
  3 days ago

• Swatting Exploits Use Technology To Harm

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ). Caller ID spoofing technologies are ...
  4 days ago

• Security Assurances are Challenge for CIO’s

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  From the CTO Forum Team Tom Clare cautions CIO’s about the ignorance towards the growing web-based security threats and prescribes simple remedies to prevent from damages. In an exclusive interview with the CTO Forum, Tom Clare, Sr. Director Product Marketing Blue Coat Systems, cautions CIO’s about the ...
  4 days ago

• Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Editor’s Note: Unclear my ass. Read the Bill of Rights Source: ABC News Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this ...
  5 days ago

• CIA pulls SWIFT one to get peak at your bank records

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Press TV European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc. Actually, the EU has been clandestinely allowing US intelligence agencies to ...
  5 days ago

• Trade Secrets and Confidential Information

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By John Watkins , Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil We have addressed the importance of trade secrets and confidential information previously on this blog and in our series of podcasts . We have discussed huge jury verdicts that have recently come down against companies found to have violated ...
  5 days ago

• Smart Grid Privacy Standards Proposed

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Rebecca Herold ( The Privacy Professor ) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Sorry to be so tardy in getting a blog post out. As many of you know I’ve been working with the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup since late June. The work done for this group is through time volunteered by all involved. As a ...
  5 days ago

• McAfee’s The Twelve Scams of Christmas

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” ...
  6 days ago

• Cloud Computing Challenges Infrastructure

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Cloud Computing is becoming more and more the buzzword of every conference, meeting and article. Yet it is still in it’s inception, and there are multitude of issues and problems. Cloud services are springing up like mushrooms after rain, and all the big ...
  6 days ago

• New e-Passport Issued; Facial Recognition & Digital Chips

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Fox News NEW YORK —  Countries that have historically friendly relations with the United States on Thursday will begin issuing passports to residents traveling abroad complete with facial-recognition software and digital chips. The U.S. State Department is already issuing so-called e-Passports to ...
  1 week ago

• Report: Domestic Terror Threat on the Rise

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Professor Jenni Hesterman , Counterterrorism Expert Last Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee opened hearings on the Fort Hood tragedy. One of the topics on the agenda is the rising domestic terror threat. But this alarm was sounded months ago, in Apr 09, when DHS ...
  1 week ago

• Comcast Homepage Hackers Indicted

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 517
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcast’s homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let them know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how ...
  1 week ago

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