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Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009
Information Security Resources | December 4th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Laton McCartney, Editor at CIOZone Every week for the past four years the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRCH), an organization dedicated to empowering consumers and protecting privacy, has been chronicling data breaches on a read more
MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity
Information Security Resources | December 4th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Identity is a simple concept that has become a complex problem. It has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money and the ease of obtaining credit and taking over an account. Because identity ha read more
ISAlliance Delivers Cyber Security Report
Information Security Resources | December 3rd 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor The Internet Security Alliance held a luncheon at the National Press Club today to unveil their much anticipated recommendations to Congress and the Obama Administration regardin read more
Barbados Family Minister says men deserve more legal rights to th…
Bajan Dream Diary | December 3rd 2009 by Bajan Dream Project
Men should be allowed more legal rights to their children, says Minister of Family, Youth and Sports Esther Byer-Suckoo. She was speaking yesterday at the launch of sociologist Lloyd Springer’s new book, Fatherhood In The Neighbourhood, at Warr read more
China’s ambassador speaks on climate change plans
Green Gang 青帮: China, Climate Change, Political Economy | December 3rd 2009 by Stephen Minas
China’s Ambassador to the UK, Fu Ying, has briefed a London School of Economics audience on China’s climate change work and planning. Fu Ying struck a positive note, reporting that 26 out of 31 provinces and regions ‘fulfilled emissions targets read more
Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface
Information Security Resources | December 3rd 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would star read more
A bad year for African governance?
Accidental Academic | December 3rd 2009 by Azad Essa
Is Africa advancing? This was the crisp question we asked ourselves at the Mo Ibrahim shindig in Dar es Salaam two weeks ago. The Prize Committee had been unable to select a winner this year. Time magazine put it succinctly last month: 2009 has been read more
New Business Briefings from Korn/Ferry
reputationXchange | December 2nd 2009 by Leslie Gaines-Ross
Just downloaded parts of Korn/Ferry’s new quarterly magazine that was just launched for CEOs, board members and other top officers. The magazine is written by Korn/Ferry consultants along with renowned journalists from the Financial Times, The read more
Betrayed for the second time
Spirituality Page | December 2nd 2009 by kebelle
Twice betrayed.Yes, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has betrayed the interest of the Filipino people.In 2001, when she took the oath as a replacement of the deposed former president Joseph Estrada, she mesmerized the public with her wicked charm. She promise read more
New quick start beginners guide for government Twitter use releas…
eGov AU | December 2nd 2009 by Craig Thomler
Dave Briggs of Learning Pool in the UK has written a quick start guide to Twitter for those working in and around government (although it's equally applicable for other people as well). The guide particularly targets Twitter newcomers and is written read more
Towards a state run media apparatus
Matt's Meditations | December 2nd 2009 by matt
The economic decline of the mainstream media is well documented. Newspapers such as the New York Times, L.A. Times, USA Today, and magazines such as Time and Newsweek have been struggling for the past 10 years with declining circulation and advertisi read more
Web Governance and Standards Compliance
frank van den berg | December 2nd 2009 by frank van den berg
WelchmanPierpoint: Over the last 15 years, the Web has fundamentally changed the way organizations operate. From its simple beginnings, the use of the Web now extends from public-facing Internet sites to knowledge-sharing, employee-focused Intranets, read more
IFRS – Time to Panic?
Gray Matters | December 2nd 2009 by Mark Bailey
In recent months the focus of discussions related to adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards have centered on differences with US GAAP (such as LIFO inventory), timing and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website read more
GRC may be the key to any business success
Modulo IT GRC | December 2nd 2009 by Lula Ribeiro
Nowadays, management needs to assign priority to GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and provide it the same level of attention as all other critical business read more
Political Graffiti (76): South Africa
PAP Blog | December 2nd 2009 by filip spagnoli
(forgot where I got this from, sorry) More on corruption. More political graffiti. Posted in comedy, governance, political graffiti Tagged: anc, apartheid, corruption, political graffiti, south africa read more
Bajan Economy Not Doing Well
Barbados Underground | December 1st 2009 by Barbados Underground
Submitted by Looking Glass In economics the standard ways of measuring, assessing and rating can and do lead to unintended consequences. Countries differ substantially in terms of human and natural resources, capabilities and position in the global m read more
Swatting Exploits Use Technology To Harm
Information Security Resources | December 1st 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is (Special Weapons and read more
Security Assurances are Challenge for CIO’s
Information Security Resources | December 1st 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
From the CTO Forum Team Tom Clare cautions CIO’s about the ignorance towards the growing web-based security threats and prescribes simple remedies to prevent from damages. In an exclusive interview with the CTO Forum, Tom Clare, Sr. Director Pr read more
Chairman Kerry Statement On President’s West Point Speech
The Democratic Daily Blog | December 1st 2009
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry released the following statement this evening following President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan: “I believe that the President defined a narrower mission tonight, not an open-ended nation read more
The Day Obama Lost the War
Matt's Meditations | December 1st 2009 by matt
The Guardian has reported that President Obama’s plan is to add 30,000 troops over 6 months and then begin withdrawing all troops in 2011 with the last ones leaving in 2013. There’s nothing quite like telegraphing your intentions to a p read more
Getting serious about web analytics in Australian government - jo…
eGov AU | December 1st 2009 by Craig Thomler
Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics ran a free event for government website managers to discuss web analytics - how different agencies were doing it and what, collectively, we would like to see happen in the area. There were a number of ex read more
Condolonce for Maguindanao Massacre Victims
Development Catalyst | December 1st 2009 by raphnexx
I am depressed for the victims of November 23, 2009 Maguindanao massacre. I know being sad won’t erase haunting memoirs of victims’ family, nor tears and weeps bring back the lives of the victims. All along I thought, such event only happens in read more
Is Al Gore the Bernie Madoff of climate change?
Matt's Meditations | December 1st 2009 by matt
The Climategate scandal has the world in an uproar as the believers battle the skeptics on the existence and effect of anthropomorphic global warming. You see, the data is all based on the IPCC and now some of the people who generated that data were read more
On World AIDS Day 2009, sexual minorities are still criminals in…
Bajan Dream Diary | December 1st 2009 by Bajan Dream Project
December 1, 2009 marks the 21st observance of World AIDS Day, under the theme Universal Access and Human Rights. In our observance of World AIDS Day, our call to action is to repeal laws criminalising homosexuals in the Caribbean. When World AI read more
Getting started in the social web - presentation from Canada's
eGov AU | December 1st 2009 by Craig Thomler
I came across this presentation from Tamera Kremer while reviewing the outcomes of Canada's recent Government 2.0 conference in Ottawa. Canadian governments - like others across the world - are addressing similar, if not identical, issues and dilemm read more
Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
Information Security Resources | November 30th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By John Watkins, Attorney with Chorey, Taylor & Feil We have addressed the importance of trade secrets and confidential information previously on this blog and in our series of podcasts. We have discussed huge jury verdicts that have recently com read more
Smart Grid Privacy Standards Proposed
Information Security Resources | November 30th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Rebecca Herold (The Privacy Professor) CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISA, FLMI Sorry to be so tardy in getting a blog post out. As many of you know I’ve been working with the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup since late June. The work done for this g read more
Barbados in another phase of Independence struggle, says Prime Mi…
Bajan Dream Diary | November 30th 2009 by Bajan Dream Project
As Barbadians mark their country’s 43rd year of Independence from Britain today, Prime Minister David Thompson has described the current recession as the second phase in the island’s struggle for independence. And in his Independenc read more
McAfee’s The Twelve Scams of Christmas
Information Security Resources | November 30th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. re read more
Cloud Computing Challenges Infrastructure
Information Security Resources | November 30th 2009 by Anthony M. Freed
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP Cloud Computing is becoming more and more the buzzword of every conference, meeting and article. Yet it is still in it’s inception, and there are multitude of issues and problems. Cloud services are spring read more
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