It’s been an absolutely fascinating week reading the output of Burton’s Catalyst Conference. Thanks to Mark Dixon over at Sun for his great recap of the conference. And to add to the chorus of voices, congratulations to Ian Glazer on his new job at Burton Group!
It’s Ian’s first post on the Burton Group blog that’s [...]
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Two recent Blog posts (by Kearns and JBohren) refer to a damning number - the high percentage of orphan accounts that exist in most applications and most large organizations. An “orphan” is an account that belongs to some person who’s left the organization (or never existed in the first place). It can’t be [...]
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Funny story of the day…
Ever heard of LifeLock? They describe themselves as an “Identity Theft Protection” service. LifeLock put out a commercial where the CEO hands out his social security number to random people on the street, and puts it on billboards, sides of trucks, etc. Never seen it? Check out [...]
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In the tragic case of a 13-year old MySpace user who committed suicide from online bullying, the AP reports in this article that Federal Prosecutors have indicted the accused “bully” on one count of conspiracy and three counts of “accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information.”
That latter charge is based on the fact that [...]
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Every once in a while, we get one of those “I coulda had a V8” items in the news. The recently announced Lending Tree breach appears to be one of those. From the reports, Lending Tree files were breached, and full credit files were sold to both other mortgage lenders, and to criminals.
These [...]
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