Perspective Actually a
“suspicions confirmed” article.
http://www.securityweek.com/more-half-enterprise-employees-receive-no-security-training-survey-finds
More
Than Half of Enterprise Employees Receive No Security Training:
Survey Finds
A
new study by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) indicates more
than half of enterprise employees may not receive any security
awareness training.
In
a survey of 600 employees sponsored by security training firm
Security monitor, 56 percent of employees said they did not get
security or policy awareness training from their organizations. This
lack of training, the report argues, often results in policy
violations and other risky behavior. For example, 33 percent said
they use the same password for both work and personal devices.
Fifty-nine percent of those surveyed said they store work information
in the cloud, where enterprises sometimes do not have the same level
of visibility or control
over data.
In
addition, 58 percent of the survey's participants said they store
sensitive information on their mobile devices - a potentially
problematic figure given that 30 percent also admitted to leaving
mobile devices unattended in their vehicles. Some 35 percent said
they have clicked on an email link from an unknown sender.
(Related)
Just
One-Third of Organizations Discover Breaches on Their Own: Mandiant
… Based
on Mandiant’s investigations, breaches were discovered in 229 days
on average in 2013 vs. 243 in 2013. While these improvements are a
positive, it still means attackers are still spending 2/3rds of the
year inside an organization’s network before being discovered.
… In
2012, 37 percent of organizations detected breaches on their own;
this number dropped to just 33 percent in 2013.
The
full report is available
online in PDF format.
(Related)
Also
says something about how big “Big Data” really is...
What
Is Eating Up The World’s Bandwidth?
Here’s
an interesting bit of trivia: streaming services make up 65 percent
of all Internet traffic during peak hours, one third of which is
attributed to Netflix. According to this infograph
by WhoIsHostingThis.com, Internet traffic will probably surpass
the zettabyte threshold – or 83 exabytes per month – in 2015. By
2017, that figure will rise to 120 exabytes a month.
Why that's barely time
to send out tickets from those “Red Light” and “Speeding”
cameras!
DutchNews.nl reports:
Government
plans to store footage of car number plates for up to
four weeks to help solve ‘serious crimes’ may conflict
with European privacy law, legal experts say in Thursday’s Trouw.
On
Tuesday, the European court of justice said government schemes to
store private individual’s phone and internet data is illegal
because of the implications for privacy.
This
may also apply to justice minister Ivo Opstelten’s plans to store
car number plate information, lawyers
told Trouw.
Read more on
DutchNews.nl.
This could be
interesting. The same picture in any of the supermarket tabloids
would pass unremarked.
Katherine
Heigl Lawsuit to Explore Nature of Corporate Tweets (Analysis)
… The actress is
upset that the drug store [Duane Reade] posted on Twitter and
Facebook a paparazzi photo of her carrying the chain's shopping bags.
She's suing in New York federal court with claims that the defendant
has violated the false advertising provision of the Lanham Act, as
well as New York civil rights statutes protecting use of likenesses
for purpose of trade.
… It's likely that
as the case proceeds, Duane Reade will put up a First Amendment
defense that will attempt to protect its social media postings as
expressive rather than commercial speech. Thus, the nature of how
corporations tweet will be subject to a judge's analysis.
… In Heigl's
complaint (read
here), she attempts to put Duane Reade into the realm that's
outside the boundaries of free speech.
Nothing new?
Joe Arnold reports:
A
bill aimed at protecting the personal data of both Kentucky consumers
and students was signed into law Thursday by Governor Steve Beshear
(D-Ky).
Sponsored
by Rep. Steve Riggs (D-Louisville) with an amendment sponsored by
Sen. Mike Wilson (R-Bowling Green), the bipartisan legislation (House
Bill 232) requires businesses to notify consumers
if a data breach reveals personally identifiable information.
[...]
The
General Assembly also agreed to additional language from Republican
Senate Bill 89, which protects student information from use by
software vendors.
Websites
such as Facebook and Google generate revenue by selling user
information to advertisers. The legislation prevents those companies
from harvesting students’ private information, such as test results
or practice assignments, for the purpose of marketing products to
school systems.
SOURCE: WHAS11.
Related: House
Bill 232.
Is there a “you can't
change your mind” law?
US
regulators warn Facebook, WhatsApp to keep privacy promise
… In a letter to
both Facebook
and WhatsApp,
the federal trade commission (FTC) said that WhatsApp has made clear
privacy promises to consumers, and that both companies have told
consumers that after any acquisition, WhatsApp will continue its
current privacy practices.
“We want to make
clear that, regardless of the acquisition, WhatsApp must continue to
honour these promises to consumers,” the FTC said and warned
the two companies that anything other than this would be considered
to be in violation of the US laws.
In 2011, Facebook
settled FTC charges that it deceived consumers by failing to keep its
privacy promises.
Under
the terms of the FTC’s order against the company, it
must get consumers’ consent before making changes that override
their privacy settings, among other requirements, an official release
said.
The FTC letter notes
that before making any material changes to how they use data already
collected from WhatsApp subscribers, the companies must get
affirmative consent.
I would never have
considered this a problem. Am I wrong? Is there ever an issue if
the staff functions share?
US
Says Cybersecurity Sharing Not an Antitrust Issue
… Officials
at the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission said they
issued formal guidance telling companies that there would be no
antitrust issues from the sharing of technical information about
cyber attacks, malware or similar threats.
"Some
companies have told us that concerns about antitrust liability has
been a barrier to being able to openly share cyber threat information
with each other.
I can remember early
Science Fiction speculating that the government would have drones
delivering the mail because it was so much cheaper than people.
Today the reality seems to be that corporations are doing the
“government's job” for profit – and doing it cheaper than the
government could.
Amazon’s
Bezos: We have eighth generation drones in the works
… If Bezos gets his
way, Amazon’s compact unmanned "octocopter" will be
delivering shoe-box sized parcels across the US well before the
five-year
timeline he initially outlined.
While some saw Bezos'
announcement of its drone project last December as a publicity stunt,
he's reassured investors in his 2013
Letter to Shareholders that he's deadly serious about getting the
delivery service off the ground.
… Amazon said on
its FAQ
page for Prime drones that it hopes the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) will have set rules for drones "as early as
sometime in 2015". So far the FAA
has only acknowledged
that drones could be useful in some commercial and civilian
scenarios, and is weighing up what minimum safety requirements it
would need to support them.
The FAA's caution is
with good reason. A drone being used to film a triathlon in Western
Australia last week was responsible
for hospitalising a competitor after the vehicle fell about 10
metres and struck her on the head. According to the drone's
operator, the device, which operated on the 2.5GHz frequency, was
hacked by someone channel hopping. An illegal unmanned drone in NSW
also had a near-collision
with a Westpac rescue helicopter earlier this month.
Bezos noted that
Amazon's drones are the pointy-end of its wider international
delivery services, including its partnership with the US Postal
Service for Sunday deliveries; its "last-mile" distribution
network in the UK and bike couriers in India and China.
To coin a phrase, this
is about e-state planning. (Or is it e-Estate?)
– helps you build
your digital legacy. If you have important files in clouds such as
Dropbox, iCloud or Google Drive and don’t want them to be lost,
Tellmebye lets you designate heirs to them. Receiving birthday
notifications or people still posting on your wall after your death
is not pleasant for anyone. Avoid situations like this and exercise
your right to be forgotten in a fast, efficient and practical way.
I'm just guessing here,
but I'd say the demand for an inexpensive 3D Printer is fairly
strong.
Updated:
Micro $299 3D Printer Passes $2M On Kickstarter In 3 Days
The consumer-focused,
low-cost Micro
3D printer that’s currently raising money on Kickstarter
to get its prototype to market, has pushed passed the $2 million mark
in pledged crowdfunds — just three days after the campaign kicked
off.
… The Micro maker’s
original fundraising target — of $50,000 — was pledged in just
11 minutes.
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