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Monday, March 14th, 2011
I read an article in the Los Angeles Times recently that opened my eyes as to how vulnerable we are when it comes to consumer technology. The article, “Fake iPods and iPhones are seized from downtown warehouses,” tells me that we now have to worry about knock-off consumer technology just as we worry about knock-off [...]
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
It’s National Consumer Fraud Week in Australia. This year’s theme, “It’s Personal,” draws our focus to the very significant personal impact of scams, and how we can take steps ourselves to fight fraud on the home front. Today’s scammers and fraudsters are getting faster, more creative, and more sophisticated. Medicare Australia and Centrelink urged Australians [...]
Monday, March 7th, 2011
The dark cloud of the WikiLeaks debacle should have a bright silver lining. The exposure of classified Department of Defense and State Department data by WikiLeaks gives us a teachable moment on information security — not just for government agencies, but for any organization that stores, handles, and processes sensitive information. The vast amount of [...]
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
I don’t have to tell you that there’s a sea change underway in how society uses information. But there is something not immediately obvious about this change: How society’s dependencies are migrating from the real (analog) world to the network-connected digital world. Once we had to walk down the hall and into a room to [...]
