I checked my email yesterday morning and was greeted with these three headlines: Employee at Maryland state agency posts client information online Sensitive database compromised at Buena Vista University Hospital: files with personal, medical data on 800,000 gone Whether a state agency, hospital or university, the issues are the same. Confidential information must remain confidential [...]
You’ve got to read this article – The Internet’s most successful scams from The Red Tape Chronicles on msnbc.com. The scams discussed are: Online dating scams Fake anti-virus software Facebook impersonation Becoming a bot The fakosphere Take the time to read, and focus on the last one, The fakosphere. You just cannot believe everything that [...]
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Why Trust is Important. In that post, the example of using your credit card at the gas station was presented, along with the assumptions about trust that are made. Yesterday, there was an article posted at dark Reading detailing recent credit card skimming incidents at gas station pumps. [...]
President Ronald Reagan said, “Trust, but verify.” I used to hold fast to that, but recently have learned that you cannot, nor should you, always verify. Trust is a critical foundational element of life, government and information security. Things would be different if trust was non-existant… Husbands and wives would always be paranoid. Negotiations between [...]
Take a look at this article from Network World. It provides high-level descriptions of how you can get infected with malware even though you avoid shady or inappropriate websites. 7 Reasons Websites Are No Longer Safe – Network World And so that you don’t have to read the long version, here is the short version… [...]
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