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"You will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life."
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Truly insightful for anyone that thinks privacy remains in this digital age of ours. Must follow the link to the ZEIT online recreation of the digital journey. It will open your eyes as to how much data breadcrums we leave behind with just carrying our cell phones with us. When crossed with additional information including twitter feeds, facebook postings, google searches and other digital activities, our life is fully documented. Those that fear lifelogging should fear no more as they are already doing it, albeit unvoluntarilly. That being said, this may have tons of useful information for businesses but I fail to see any CIO or IT team yet tapping into this trove of data that could be leverage to improve distribution routes or manage employees better.
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A lot of people are freaked out by the idea that the NSA has for years been collecting data from ordinary Americans' email accounts. Nobody likes the idea of the feds combing through their email. But experts know that it's not the content of individual emails that is the most useful thing to authorities. Rather, it's the metadata. Metadata is, literally, "information about the information." Email metadata provides a much broader view of patterns between users, and who is communicating with who, than the text inside any individual email would. If you want to identify terrorist networks, the metadata is what you really want, not access to the inside of a few suspects' accounts. (Although that might come later, of course.) MIT has been working on a project called "Immersion" to let you do exactly that with your own email, so that you can see who your closest "collaborators" actually are (and not the ones you'd like to think they are). You sign up at this web site, and let the software arrange your email history into a visual network of the people you communicate with.
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Follw the link to MIT immersion and explore your own network. Very interesting to see it mapped out. Compare it to your LinkedIn network visual map for example, and now you have
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Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” - scary #mustread via @ars
For Ars, three crackers have at 16,000+ hashed passcodes—with 90 percent success.
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Scary but not surprising. Must read for anyone going digital in a big way. Passwords are weak and 2 factor authentication is a must these days. Simple demonstration is given here. Must read.
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The Associated Press has published a detailed report about how the NSA's PRISM program — established to acquire data from tech giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — is a small part of a massive domestic dragnet run by...
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Go read the report as well as it is well done
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...opens up the online heist racket to a whole new criminal demographic—advanced skills no longer required. If you can set up a web server, you can rob someone over the Internet. Just as Amazon web services made it easy to start a cloud-based company, ZeuS lets anyone become an online thief.
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I never digital transformations would all be for the better...
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In generation two, when you've got better battery life and apps that do better face recognition—maybe we're crying wolf a little early to a certain extent—but [what happens when] you get to competing products?” Adam said. “The idea that you'll have recognition of objects and infrared tags so it will always know what you're looking at—that kind of thing, it will be gathering information. It's more the face recognition stuff that changes society. You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again. "It destroys having multiple identities, and I find that quite a scary concept."
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Google glass + facial recognition will have a profound impact on the way people will interact with strangers in a business setting. Facial recognition will certainly be built within the devices early in their life, which will give access to information on a previously never seen scale. In a recent article in The Economist, a third of a random set of 93 Carnegie Mellon students were recognized using facial recognition software and facebook profile photos. But the thing is, I never remember names or exactly where I've met people previously in a business context. Being able to have their name and other information popup discretly in my google glasses as I pass them by in the hallways has a definite appeal. And I suppose I am not very different than other colleagues of mine. This thing will sell.
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Through GPS, most mobile users can be quickly identified by their daily movement patterns, according to a study. For the study, the research team studied 15 months of anonymous mobile data for roughly 1.5 million people. What they found was that, if they got accurate hourly updates on a person's whereabouts, tracked by their mobile carrier's cell towers, four "data points" were all they needed to figure out the person's identity 95% of the time.
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Most of us will gladly supply our location data in order to have access to location-based promotions, reductions, coupons and other incentives. But unlike web browsing data, which can remain anonymous, location data actually reveals who you are.
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Findings from two companies that apply science to try to decrease online shopping fraud and increase sales. This morning, I covered the launch of Sift Science, a brainy startup from ex-Googlers that’s applying machine learning to detect fraud patterns in online retail. Sift Science co-founder Brandon Ballinger told me that during beta testing with services like Airbnb and Uber, his company had observed a million different signals that flag any one buyer as a potential fraudster. For instance, beware of people who try to buy something with a Yahoo email account — they’re twice as likely as the norm to be fraudsters — but users of AOL and Outlook.com email domains are much more likely to be safe.
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siftScience service leverages multiple websites data to find patterns of fraudulent behaviour. An optimized version of a process that was once done offline and with much less information.
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Dave is an extremely gifted clairvoyant who finds out specific financial information. This video reveals the magic behind the magic, making people aware of t...
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You think privacy still exists? Well this video demonstrates quite well that you may already have lost some key personal aspects of your life. What about your business? Are we leaving digital breadcrums that could lead our competitors to insights that would harm our business? most probably the answer is YES...
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Not quite lost in the madding crowd IF YOUR face and name are anywhere on the web, you may be recognised whenever you walk the streets—not just by cops but by anybody. Brazil, preparing for the soccer World Cup in 2014, is already trying out pairs of glasses with mini-cameras attached; policemen wearing them could snap images of faces, easy to compare with databases of criminals.
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While Chinese officials have dismissed the claims of state-sponsored hacking as “groundless”, numerous media organizations, including Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, and companies have come forward to state that they faced similar attacks.
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This is a very technical posting with links to an even more technical report. Not for the faint at heart, I thought it was appropriate as digital transformations must address the concerns of security and privacy and take them seriously. Moreover, the supposed Chinese government involvement does not mean threats are only for military operations. As the NYTimes incident highlights, private companies are also targetted, either directly as is the NYTimes for their "snooping around and asking questions", but also because hackers will try to infiltrate legitimate businesses for use as go betweens in their attacks. And after reading the latest Tom Clancy book Threat Vector, I thought his insight into a Chinese-led hacking unit based in Shanghai may just be too much!
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As we see a shift towards greater digital relationships between customers and organisations, the risks associated with customer relationships are changing and no risk is more front-of-mind at the current time than data security. Sony recently lost the personal data of some 77million accounts from their PlayStation Network including names, email addresses, birth dates, log in details, passwords and possibly credit card details. The organisation behind the breach is yet to be confirmed but what is beyond doubt is that Sony have a long road ahead of them when it comes to rebuilding consumer trust (perhaps shown by the significant loss they reported this week.
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Of course the digital transformation will increase the security risk of enterprises, and that must be addressed and stressed.
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Two-factor authentication is one of the best things you can do to make sure your accounts don't get hacked. Sites that support 2 factor authentication: Google/Gmail, LastPass, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft (some), Yahoo Mail, Amazon Web Service, Wordpress, DreamHost
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Based on the idea that security is improved if you are required to provide 2 pieces of information. In most cases, it means something you know (a password) and something you have (a cell phone). Takes a bit of effort to setup but essential for anybody or corporation that is seriously going digital.
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Search giant experiments with YubiKey card to automatically log in users into GMail and other websites, not just Google properties.
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Again something to consider when going digital. Better than passwords, yet it does not solve all the security issues and concerns...
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Security remains at the center of concerns when companies go digital. Of course, going digital incresases the surface of attack and the probability of exposing private information to the general public. However, risks must be weighed against the benefits that digital brings.
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Read about the latest cyber security trends in the Sophos Security Threat Report 2013. From Sophos, the leader in Antivirus, Encryption, Email Spam Protection, DLP, Endpoint and Network Security.
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Amazing description of the sophistication behind the Blackhole malware and "service" where affiliates are paid for redirecting users to be infected!
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Learn What Can Go Wrong When Employees Use Dropbox for File-Sharing and How to Secure Your Corporate Data. Download this Step By Step Guide from Sophos Today.
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The only Dropbox Security Strategy: restrict access and encrypt all data? Does not sound like a very good solution to me as people will always find way around the controls. Better to keep it open but have clear reports on the actual files being transferred and stored on the cloud?
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Good alternative to writing down the passwords in a notepad or using the same password over and over...
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You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
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Very good overview of reasons why passwords fail. We must go beyond the password and encourage solution providers to build more advanced and seamless protection systems.
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Savez-vous que vos données partagées en public sur les réseaux sociaux peuvent être de précieux indices pour des personnes mal intentionnées ? Via Patrick Bouillaud
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Ging digital means you trust computer systems with more and more private and confidential information, Again here, one of the reasons why passwords fail. We must go beyond the password and encourage solution providers to build more advanced and seamless protection systems. Here, evidence shows that even the most complex passwords will fail when hackers can simply ask for them to be reset using publicly available information on Facebook and other websites.
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Basically, everyone should become aware and turn "ON" two-factor authentication and start using tools to manage their complex passwords. This is the world we live in!