privacy

There are some things that you want to keep private. It may be financial information, sensitive data like your passwords, proprietary information, or other such confidential material. You simply don’t want friends, colleagues, roommates, family, or repair people to have access to that information. Not only is that information private, but you want to secure [...]

You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you’ll learn what’s at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do [...]

Recently there have been concerns brought against the Palm Pre that user privacy might be in peril. The charge is that the phone sends data back to Palm on a daily basis. Apparently, this was not something that sat well with this individual.
This data sent not only included how long each application was used for, [...]

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wrote what he considered to be private email correspondences to a “dear friend.” Unfortunately, the recipient of his email communications had her email account hacked. This unauthorized access meant that Governor Sanford’s private, intimate email correspondences were media fodder for the national and international press. The breach of email security [...]

Right now, social security numbers, credit cards, bank accounts, passwords, and other highly sensitive personal information are sitting idly on your computer leaving you and your family exposed to identity theft. You may not be able to find all the places it’s hidden, but hackers and thieves know where to look. They have developed viruses, [...]

Gnomie Chris Johnson writes:
Well, it seems your elected members are rather more clued up and willing to work than our British versions.
There has been scant coverage of this in the US (and I have been warning you about it too), but members of your government have finally picked up on it. Over here in the [...]