Scott Wright recently made a presentation at an OCRI meeting on social networking security. He has recorded a podcast interview on Facebook security. He is also a Toastmaster who has documented the top three Facebook security risks covered in his Facebook Party-Pooper speech. Then he provides a link to Tom Eston’s recommendations for Facebook privacy […]
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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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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Must be the week for Canadian patriotism. Here is a slashdot article with links for country rankings for privacy with Canada tied with Germany for #1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1513239&from=rss Feels good. More to be done. More to be done.
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