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 took the unusual step last month of revealing, albeit in...
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...
Finally there is security, the one strong door theory. 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...
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?
Pool proprietary data from your organization's niche, industry, or even customer database (get customer consent and anonymize the data, of course) and compile it into a free report, like the HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report or the...
A Microsoft Forefront and Security Essentials update revealed an “incorrect detection” error that saw Google.com flagged as malware. The message read, “The National High Tech Crime Center of the Danish National Police [NITEC], who assist in...
So what are the security considerations? 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...
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...
The program has had some controversy – areas of national security have been blocked in a number of countries and claims that terrorists are able to see details about potential targets has also been discussed.
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...
Manal Al-Sherif, a 32-year-old IT expert, was arrested at dawn on Sunday and accused of 'violating public order,' according to a security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media," the...
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: Someday, Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif.wants to be an...
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...
