The unabated proliferation of Information Technology has had significant impact on the manner in which organizations conduct their business, effectively rendering geographical boundaries redundant. This impact has been particularly notable in developing countries such as India, which has witnessed a …Read more.
Posted by Prasanna Sambasivan on November 04, 2009 at 03:18PM
The web was all in a ruckus in late August, 2009. Embarrassing screenshots of many Facebook accounts echoed, prompting questions of veracity and user adherence to basic security principles. In fact, everything actually happened last February. According to Jimmy Ruska’s …Read more.
Posted by Henry Stern on October 01, 2009 at 08:15AM
A few weeks ago, I talked a little bit about the threat of de-anonymization. In this week’s Cyber Risk Report, we discuss another facet to this growing problem of data collection: persistent digital traces deposited through everyday activities. Specifically, we …Read more.
Posted by Seth Hanford on September 30, 2009 at 07:50AM
Paul Ohm’s recent paper about the failures of anonymization brought to light some very compelling arguments against the practice. The goal of anonymization is to remove personally identifying details without removing other usefulness from a dataset. As an example, a …Read more.
Posted by Seth Hanford on September 17, 2009 at 05:31AM
The rapid adoption of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, online media sharing, social networking, and web-based collaboration has pushed huge quantities of data onto Internet servers. Along with this migration to web services has come a push for companies …Read more.
Posted by Seth Hanford on June 25, 2009 at 09:44AM
Many years ago I saw, on a whiteboard, a sentence which never left me. The sentence, written by a programmer friend, said: “Never automate sharp objects”. Although, I do not totally agree with my friend, but there is a lot …Read more.
Posted by jmgronski on March 03, 2009 at 02:38PM
With the recent FCC ruling on elements of Net Neutrality, the dog days of summer are witnesses to yet another chapter unfolding in this ongoing debate. Proponents of both sides will end up dissecting the FCC’s final decision line by …Read more.
Posted by Morgan Elliott on August 18, 2008 at 12:51PM
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