Identity theft got some more attention today with CBC coverage on reactions to their Going Going Gone segment. Silentbanker windows trojan/key logger was mentioned as a threat without much in the way of protection being identified. Jennifer Stoddart and Michael Geist were interviewed with the conclusion being that more teeth is needed for enforcing the […]
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There is a need for people, especially system developers, to have a clearer understanding about secrets both for identification and authentication. This also relates to privacy since our secrets must remain private but we may also want to keep information private that is not related to security. Information used for identification doesn’t necessarily need to
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Yesterday CBC Newsworld had a show about a mother who was shocked to find that photos of her son that had been posted publicly on Flickr also showed up on an MTS Allstream site and a site in Portugal with comments on how cute he was. This was followed by the usual alarmist commentary and
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There has been some contention on the true status of identity theft since it is undergoing transformation in the types that are being perpetrated. Identity theft status There is no denying that identity theft continues to be a major problem that merits some creative solutions.
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Seth Godin has a good idea about protecting our valuable electronic devices from being misplaced, by an alarm for lack_of_proximity. I would also really like to see a feature where it would be possible to track down lost or stolen cell phones but something to avoid it happening altogether is even better. An example service
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The following article is from Network World Identity Management by David Kearns. It reviews the potential of Open-ID and references some recent questions raised about it by Kim Cameron who favours a solution that includes client side software implementation. Since Open-ID is evolving, with a new version 2 being developed, more information is needed to
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This may seem to be obvious but when you really think about it the answer may not be so obvious. You bought the personal computer and presumably installed the software that runs on it but are you really in control of what it is used for? If your PC isn’t secured it can fall prey
Video on some of the privacy issues that people need to become informed about. Two great quotes in the video. We are in danger of becoming walking bar codes. People who are willing to give up a little privacy for a little security will get neither. This is attributed to Benjamin Franklin but his actual
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Background on electronic passport plans in the US and some concerns that have been raised. It would be a very bad day if government required documents are used against citizens and the cost of fixing it later could be enormous. The following video shows a vulnerability of a passport RFID chip being read without a
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This techrepublic article provides a useful summary of IE7 security features: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1009_11-6130844.html Firefox 2 is also emphasizing security features: http://news.com.com/With+Firefox+2,+Mozilla+touts+security+and+speed/2100-1032_3-6129141.html http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Security_in_Firefox_2 http://news.com.com/Security+Bites+Podcast+Firefox+2+beats+IE+7/2324-12640_3-6130309.html
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