This highly intrusive program which violated personal privacy at every level has been abandoned, why? Because the genii (plural of genius) testing the application violated all security principles by performing test on REAL personal data. Known as ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement) was initiated in 2003, it was to be used by …
Wikipedia entry was updated and the wikipedia folks were able to trace the origin. This is one of the things I said in my blog earlier, how traceable your activity is on the Internet. If the folks at wikipedia were able to get into the machine they could get a whole lot of information which …
Monster.com information theft was not realy a hack but more a case of identitiy theft. How so? well… some gullable individual working for a recruiter or in the HR department of a company managed to provide their credential via a PHISHING email. Once the hackers got hold of these credentials, they were able to use TROJANS to …
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Came across this article PRIVACY LOST – No secrets in the digital age, very good content about privacy. Let me enlighten you with some facts I have come across in my career. It is very important that everyone understands how everything and anything they do today can be directly linked back to them. Some …
Came across this article today about the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Caltech performing detailed background checks on their employees. I agree every employer has the right with employees’ permission to perform a background check. Employers should ensure that the background checks are commensurate with the duty the employee is to perform. The fact that …
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