Job seekers might have more to lose than they think.
Experts warn that providing too much information on a resume or on online social networking sites could lead to identity theft. "Only post things you wouldn't mind someone else stealing," said David Cowings, senior manager of operations for security response for anti-fraud and anti-spam at Symantec, an information security provider that employs 17,000 people globally.
Beny Rubinstein knows computer security. An employee of a Seattle-area tech giant with 20 years of IT experience under his belt, Rubinstein has seen a side of the industry that most people will never know. He holds a degree in computer engineering, and--oh yeah--he just got scammed out of $1100 on Facebook.
Companies looking to reduce their IT costs and complexity by tapping into cloud computing services should first make sure that they won't be stepping on any privacy land mines in the process, according to a report released this week by the World Privacy Forum.
From HIPPA to Sarbox, a slew of regulations to protect customer and employee data force CIOs to step lively to comply. The punishment for failure to do so is costly and even dire. But once a company folds-and more are folding every week given the economy-what happens to that data? Who in the business and IT could be hit by the splatter if it all hits the fan?
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We denied it in the Last.fm forums, on twitter, via email – basically we denied it to anyone that would listen, and now we’re denying it on our blog.
The unreleased U2 album "No Line on the Horizon" was leaked onto Bit Torrent last week, and the resulting downloads have sent the RIAA into a frenzied fit. New rumors reported by TechCrunch have revealed that the recording industry might be looking to track down people who downloaded the album using Last.fm’s Scrobbler service.
Half of Brits have stalked an ex online using Facebook or another social networking site, says people search engine Yasni. The research by Yasni revealed that women were more likely to look up a past lover, with 62 percent admitting to searching for an ex, compared to 46 percent of men.
Of those that had searched for an ex online, 57 percent said they did it out of curiosity while 21 percent admitted jealousy was the major driver behind their search. A further 9 percent said they did it because they wouldn't get caught.
For the second time in less than four weeks, the University of Florida has been forced to notify students, staff and faculty about a cyber attack.
This time, a hacker got into the university's antiquated Grove system, set up in 1996, and possibly stole the names and social security numbers of more than 97,000 people.
A report earlier this month that MySpace removed 90,000 sex offenders from its Web site had me wondering: Maybe all those moms who spy on their kids online are doing the right thing.
Yeah, that's right. Moms are spying. They're reading kids' text messages, hacking into their e-mail and checking what Web sites they've been visiting.
If Pres. Obama has his way, the medical records of every American will be digitized by 2014. The stimulus package (read the text here) includes $19 billion in funding to pay for the effort and calls for the appointment of a chief privacy officer to advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on how best to protect this sensitive information.
