http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090210161839953
ESI Year in Review 2008
Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 04:18 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The ESI Year in Review - 2008 examines all of the information security incidents occurring at colleges and universities around the world as reported in the news during 2008.
The security incidents reported in 2008 continued many of the trends seen in 2007. More colleges and universities reported suffering more security incidents. In fact, the total number of institutions suffering security incidents outnumbers the total number of incidents in 2008 due to several incidents affecting more than one institution. Another common trend continued from 2007 was that employee mistakes continue to be the leading cause of reported information security incidents.
Here is a sample of the information contained in the Educational Security Incidents (ESI) Year in Review - 2008:
* Total Number of Incidents: 173, a 24.5% increase over 2007
* Total Number of Institutions Affected: 178, a 59% increase over 2007
* Total Number of Incidents by Type:
o Employee Fraud: 10
o Impersonation: 4
o Loss: 9
o Penetration: 35
o Theft: 40
o Unauthorized Disclosure: 75
Source - ESI
The cost of Security Breaches. (For when you prepare next year's Security budget)
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090210160614564
Pointer: impact of breaches on stock market prices
Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 04:06 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
I received an email about a new web site on data breaches. When I checked it out, I saw a post on the impact of a data breach on stock market prices for 10 publicly traded firms that experienced breaches that may be of interest to readers.
See- atthebreach.com
[NOTE: They also have a list of Third Party providers who are responsible for breaches, at: http://www.atthebreach.com/news/beware-of-these-3rd-party-providers/
Aliens got privacy, but not the right to judicial review...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090210162348347
DHS memo: data retention protections for non-U.S. persons now online
Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 04:23 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews
This memorandum sets forth the policy of the DHS Privacy Office regarding privacy protections afforded to non-U.S. persons for information collected, used, retained, and/or disseminated by the Department of Homeland Security in so-called "mixed systems."1
My Computer Forensics class should compile a checklist of “not very lawyerly ideas” to test for...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/1749208&from=rss
You Are Not a Lawyer
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 10, @01:42PM from the help-in-thinking-like-one dept.
Paul Ohm is starting a new "very occasional" feature on the Freedom To Tinker blog called You Are Not a Lawyer — "In this series, I will try to disabuse computer scientists and other technically minded people of some commonly held misconceptions about the law (and the legal system)." In the first installment, Ohm walks through the reasons why many techies' faith in the presence of "reasonable doubt" is so misplaced.
"When techies think about criminal law, and in particular crimes committed online, they tend to fixate on [the 'beyond a reasonable doubt'] legal standard, dreaming up ways people can use technology to inject doubt into the evidence to avoid being convicted. I can't count how many conversations I have had with techies about things like the 'open wireless access point defense,' the 'trojaned computer defense,' the 'NAT-ted firewall defense,' and the 'dynamic IP address defense.' ... People who place stock in these theories and tools are neglecting an important drawback. There are another set of legal standards — the legal standards governing search and seizure — you should worry about long before you ever get to 'beyond a reasonable doubt.'"
I'm sure there will be lots of little gems in this bill...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10161233-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
'Stimulus' bill pushes e-health records for all Americans
by Declan McCullagh February 10, 2009 8:45 PM PST
… Yet nowhere in this 140-page portion of the legislation does the government anticipate that some Americans may not want their medical histories electronically stored, shared, and searchable. Although a single paragraph promises that data-sharing will "be voluntary," there's no obvious way to opt out.
Ditto
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/1649202&from=rss
WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband
Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 10, @12:06PM from the at-least-they-can-pay-with-free-money dept. United States Networking The Almighty Buck The Internet Politics
olddotter writes
"According to the WSJ, The US government is about to spend $10 Billion to make little difference in US broadband services: 'More fundamentally, nothing in the legislation would address the key reason that the US lags so far behind other countries. This is that there is an effective broadband duopoly in the US, with most communities able to choose only between one cable company and one telecom carrier. It's this lack of competition, blessed by national, state and local politicians, that keeps prices up and services down.' Get ready for USDA certified Grade A broadband."
[From the article:
A recent report by the Pew Research Center entitled "Stimulating Broadband: If Obama Builds It, Will They Log On?" concluded that for many people, the answer is no, often due to high monthly prices. By one estimate, the lowest monthly price per standard unit of millions of bits per second is nearly $3 in the U.S., versus about 13 cents in Japan and 33 cents in France.
A tool for podcasts, online video and TV
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2117234&from=rss
Miro 2.0 Launches Today
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 10, @07:18PM from the on-the-wall dept. Television The Internet
soDean writes
"Miro just launched their 2.0 release today. The free and open source HD video player and Internet TV features an all-new interface and an entirely rewritten UI engine, plus tons of new features and improvements — it's less of a collection of new stuff and more of a rethinking of the whole experience. You can download Miro 2.0 here for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Miro is developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, hell-bent on making Internet video more open and decentralized, along with a dedicated community of users, volunteers, translators, testers, and coders."
Explaining Apple? My friend Dennis had described this concept years ago, but didn't charge $750 for a detailed report.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10160891-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
How to predict gadget success
by Erica Ogg February 10, 2009 4:52 PM PST
Sometimes even a well-designed and innovative product can still be a total dud. See the Apple Newton.
The industry analysts at Forrester Research now say they know why this happens.
In a new report released Friday, Forrester analyst James McQuivey zeroes in on what makes seemingly good products fall flat once they reach store shelves: lack of convenience.
… Forrester says convenience is key. It defines the concept in this way: A "comprehensive measure that considers the total product experience." That includes researching the product, obtaining the device, using it, and eventually getting rid of it. The study also says that in successful products, convenience is not a benefit, but "a measure of how easy your product makes it for people to get the benefits your product promises."
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