On May 3 the Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new 24-page guideline,”Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding” for organizations in governments throughout the world regarding access to data from publicly funded research projects.
Data Security: OECD Publishes New Privacy Guidelines for Accessing Data From Publicly Funded Research Projects
May 6th, 2007Iowa Student Gets Internship from Google for Reporting Security Flaw: More Proof Vendors Need Stronger Security Checking For Their Products
May 5th, 2007Last night while my sons and I were watching the news it was reported that in Davenport, Iowa a St. Ambrose University student, David Bloom, found a security flaw in early December when he was using the Google Docs and Spreadsheets program.
Employee Privacy & New Credit Check Law In Washington State Impacts Employers: Joins Similar Laws In 4 Other States
May 4th, 2007Doing background checks on potential employees, and regularly for certain positions with significant access to personally identifiable information (PII) or managemen capabilities, has been a growing trend in recent years. Such checks are viewed as ways to help prevent putting untrustworthy and significant at-risk individuals into positions where they could perform malicious and/or criminal activities.
Reducing Attack Exposure for Internet-Facing Applications
May 3rd, 2007Yesterday the Channel 12 news in Jackson, Mississippi reported a Kennesaw, Georgia business had its Internet-facing computer system hacked. That business’s application is “now generating thousands of counterfeit messages to businesses and consumers, purporting to be a complaint filed with the BBB.”
New Study: More Confirmation That Spam Costs Businesses Significant $$
May 2nd, 2007On April 2 Nucleus Research, Inc. released a study, “Spam: The Repeat Offender” which reports that, according to a survey of 849 email users, 90% of all email going into company networks is spam, and 66% of spam gets through corporate filters.
SOX Amendment Defeated: Information security and SMBs
May 1st, 2007Addressing Privacy: There Will Never Be a Technology-Only Solution Because of the Human Factors Involved
April 29th, 2007Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jay Cline for a Computerworld article he was doing about small companies, such as mine, that provide privacy services to organizations.
Privacy: Surveillance and Poor Security Practices
April 28th, 2007Today I read with interest an article in the U.K.’s Guardian Unlimited, “Surveillance ‘intrudes on our lives‘.”
I am doing some research into various surveillance methods, such as with CCTV, key loggers, and other methods of surreptitiously recording the activities of individuals, typically without their consent, and often without their knowledge.
HIPAA: More Changes and Initiatives by HHS
April 26th, 2007I’ve been reading so much about HIPAA lately; no enforcement actions yet, but a lot of changes, proposals and initiatives.
Two more I read about recently:
