In case you haven’t heard, now ex-New York-governor Elliot Spitzer recently was found to be the frequent customer of a “high end call girl service” for the past couple of years.
How was he caught? Through an electronic path he left making payments for his philandering flings.
Archive for the ‘Information Security’ Category
Spitzer Downfall Spotlights Surveillance In Mainstream
Saturday, March 15th, 2008Twelve Messaging Risks to Address Now
Monday, March 10th, 2008The first article within the March issue of my new e-journal, “IT Compliance in Realtime” is “Twelve Messaging Risks to Address Now.”
Here are a few excerpts…
Warnings Of New Phishing Threat Hitting Mainstream
Friday, March 7th, 2008Recently I blogged about getting a phishing scam message that threatened my life.
I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see the Iowa Attorney General’s office and law enforcement warning the public about this scam here.
The general public should made more aware of information security and privacy concerns, risks and scams to help keep them from falling victims to criminal schemes such as this.
What do you do to make those in your community more aware?
My New E-Journal For March Now Available!
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Remember when I mentioned in January that I would be devoting more time in 2008 to writing papers to post to this site instead of spending as much time writing long blog postings?
Well, the papers I wrote in February are now available for you to download, FREE, in the form of what will be a monthly E-Journal!
For this month I wrote about the following issues that I see as immediately significant to businesses of all kinds:
Another Messaging Risk To Keep In Mind
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Many of the business folks I’ve talked to in the past year or two are increasingly using text messaging more while doing their business. And they are using their business cell phones more for sending personal text messages.
A few weeks ago I wrote about how sending text messages got the mayor of Detroit in big trouble.
Here’s one more compelling reason to think twice about the text messages you send; whether from your business phone or personal phone:
FREE Resource Overflowing With Great Info Sec & Privacy Articles Just Published
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Long time dear friends and colleagues of mine, Tom and Justin Peltier, just published their “2007 Year in Review.”
It is a great, FREE, resource to add to your information security, privacy and compliance files.
Here are the folks who contributed, along with the articles they wrote:
Are You Taking The Panda Security Challenge?
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008I was very intrigued to get an email yesterday from a security software vendor announcing a contest daring information security practitioners to find a malware-free network and they’ll give you $10,000.
Here’s the text of the message:
New HIPAA Security Information on the CMS website
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I just got a notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
New HIPAA Security Information on the CMS website
Educational Security Incidents Year in Review 2007
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Since I’m talking about “The Anatomy of a Privacy Breach” at Berkeley today, I thought it would be timely to point out a great resource that details the very many privacy breaches that occur within colleges and universities.
Insider Threat: Ex-Employee Takes Files To New Employer
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Here’s a good article for your files, and to point out to your legal counsel to point out the very real insider threat to information security and privacy…
A Massachusetts trial court recently ruled that the unauthorized transfer of electronic files is actionable as a conversion under Massachusetts’ common law.
