Indian Government Wants Blackberry Keys
The recent issues between RIM and India bring Smart Phone security under the microscope. RIM offers “secure” email and text messaging. It’s secure because it is encrypted, and because it routes through RIM servers. RIM holds the encryption keys. India doesn’t like that, and it wanted RIM to make the keys [...]

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Yesterday, I was fed up with my password mess. I had too many passwords, and despite my “method,” I was losing track of them all. I decided to work on upgrading my method. I started out looking for a replacement “password vault.”
Here are my requirements:

is highly secure, using accepted standards (i.e. - [...]

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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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We’ve had PCI DSS discussion on our blog for 3 days in a row. That’s one heck of a tail-wind. Computerworld’s Ben Rothke has an interesting opinion piece today, “Battling information-security Stockholm syndrome.” Yesterday I mentioned that in my opinion, organizations fail to adopt or even take PCI DSS seriously because of [...]

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