Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Craver
I had the opportunity to sit in on a Eurekify webcast on Wednesday outlining and demoing the new V4 version of their Role & Compliance Management Server. I haven’t personally worked with Eurekify products for a few years. They are certainly well known for their Sage product, which performed enterprise role discovery/mining. [...]
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Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Craver
This just in… your identity is worth around $3. That’s according to the latest in the TJX saga. TJX, the owner of TJ Maxx and Marshalls (among other stores), has had what many believe to be the largest (reported) consumer data theft in history. The theft of at least 46 million (with [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Carrington
So, who owns your identity? The naive among us might suppose that the individual is entitled to his identity, and that he owns it. If so, you’d get a lot of disagreement from the organizations. Doctors say they own the medical records, because they created it - literally wrote it in a file folder. Credit Reporting agencies will tell you that they own your credit file. The government will tell you they own your drivers license and passport — they just let you use them, and can demand their return at any time.
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Posted on April 1st, 2008 by Carrington
The news this week has included several articles (AFP feed linked here) noting that the German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble’s fingerprints were published, along with a “how to” article on creating a fake set of fingerprints. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) allegedly collected the fingerprints from a water glass. The CCC published the [...]
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