We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...
The premise of that was that even those making innocuous comments could be providing information that, when combined with a lot of other innocuous comments, could piece together enough information to present a serious security risk.
Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U.S.government, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acknowledging it is one of the first firms to do so. Google has tried in recent years to provide users with some...
Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...
Because you don’t have to give these websites you interact with any information, your IdP will vouch for your name, address, age, social security, credit card and anything else that your IdP holds in their “verified identity” account of you.
A 2010 national survey by the National Cyber Security Alliance discovered that 54 percent of Americans at the time were “extremely concerned” at the prospect of loss or theft of their identifying or financial data online.
The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the National Security Agency's decision not to release information confirming or denying if they have a relationship with Google. Wired reported that Judge Janice Rogers Brown, in a 3-0 opinion, sided with the...
Google is looking to add a few good Bloodhounds to its canine search team and some Rottweilers in corporate security. Have you seen the National Car Rental commercial that talks about improving ROI through SEO by COB?
These very valid points raised by the security community are not answered in the documentation and this would be a huge SCORE, huge ACCESS and a huge DATA carrot for hackers (i.e.a huge jackpot for the reasons hackers' hack, so why wouldn't they...
Because it would be a poor choice economically and for security to have only one provider, there will be many Identity Providers that users can select from to act as their intermediary. A false sense of control, privacy, and security among Users
An October 14th White House blog post reveals that Google has “recently” had their credentialing solutions certified to meet federal security and privacy requirements. The U.S.government has been working with entities in the private sector on the...
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma said "we are very interested in Yahoo because our Alibaba Group is so important to Yahoo, and Yahoo is also very important to us," Bloomberg noted, though selling a U.S.company to a Chinese firm would draw immense CFIUS...
The authors make it sound like a veritable cornucopia of security and ease, why wouldn’t you want to use it? The Federal Government will enable the private sector and will lead by example through the early adoption and provision of Identity...
This event is of particular concern to the committee not only because of our interest in the broader issue of cybersecurity and its national-security implications, but also because news accounts of this cyberattack have implicated the possible...
This year’s competition did face some criticism after it was discovered Google collected the social security numbers of entrants. Google also announced three national finalists: Google later stopped asking for this information.
This includes: full name, email address, mailing address, phone number, birth date, national identity, pension, social security, tax ID, health care, or driver's license number, and mother's maiden name.
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google 'WiSpy' Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data Google unfairly collected information under French law and received economic benefits from the data; and "Google has not refrained from using the data identifying...
MHTML vulnerability under active exploitation - Google Online Security Blog While Google employees have had a hand in the overthrow of the despotic Egyptian government last month, Google chose an interesting Doodle - the birthday of the composer of...
The Android Market security update they pushed out, however, has shown up with suspicious code in a repackaged version on an unregulated third-party Chinese marketplace, CNET reported. Google automatically pushed out "Android Market Security Tool...
Doodle 4 Google Contest a Tool to Collect Kids Social Security Numbers? Why would Google need the date of birth, city of birth, and last four digits of children's social security numbers for what is supposed to be an innocent art project?
