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ISSA European Conference: A talk from Right Honorurable David Davis, MP

I attended the ISSA European Conference last week, and was pleasantly surprised by a fantastic speaker line-up and some excellent content. The agenda was kicked off by Right Honourable David Davis, MP House of Commons, UK Parliament, who joked that his talk would completely defy that of what was ou ...

Posted 14 February 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: MP, Privacy, Stuxnet, ISSA, Infosecurity

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Internet Pioneer Speaks Out on Privacy, Governance, and Internet Tax

In an interesting addition to the everlasting debate about internet censorship – specifically on the idea of an 'Internet Tax' – one of the creators of the internet has spoken out about his views on how strange the notion is, and how the interference of governments in managing hi ...

Posted 11 February 2013 by Jean-Loup Richet

tags: Jean-Loup Richet, censorship, Internet tax, Privacy, Governance, Vint Cerf

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2013: The Year for Privacy?

As we approach the end of the year it is only natural that people start looking forward to what may happen in the upcoming New Year. My inbox, like everyone else’s, has been flooded with messages from vendors predicting the threats that we will face in 2013, and by some strange twist of fate o ...

Posted 18 December 2012 by Brian Honan

tags: Privacy, Security, Predictions

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Facebook Goes Public – Time to Pop the Privacy Champagne?

First, please excuse me for letting my inner Archie Bunker vent a little. If you are anything like me, then you could care less about updating your Facebook page on an hourly basis. Sure, I have a page, but maintaining it is both a bore and a chore (pardon my weak rhyming scheme). What are even wors ...

Posted 02 February 2012 by Drew Amorosi

tags: Facebook, privacy, internet security

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Google’s Approach of a “_NOMAP” Wi-Fi ZONE

Google recently announced an approach to provide Wi-Fi Access Point owners an option to opt-out from the Google Location server, thereby addressing specific privacy concerns of certain Access Point owners, and of the users in the coverage area of specific Access Point(s). Location based services ( ...

Posted 20 November 2011 by Ajay Gupta

tags: Google, WiFi , WPS, _nomap, SSID, Stalking, Robbery, Crime, Privacy, LBS, GPS

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Privacy Consequences of WiFi MAC Availability Over the Air

In a recently released report titled “Wi-Fi Positioning Systems: Beware of Unintended Consequences” – by Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Kim Cameron, a leading digital identity expert – indicates that availability of mobile device ...

Posted 16 June 2011 by Ajay Gupta

tags: WiFi, WiFi Security , WPS, MAC, Privacy , Smartphone, Privacy Breach

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Revisiting Data Privacy Day

We regret that we did not have space to publish this in our upcoming print edition, but we here at Infosecurity nonetheless thought it was important to provide our readers with this feedback we received recently on one of our web news items. Since it is in reference to an online item, we thought we ...

Posted 28 March 2011 by Drew Amorosi

tags: privacy, Data Privacy Day

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Strong Authentication and Privacy – A Contradiction in Terms?

You know that I am not a big fan of the requirement for having all Internet users authenticate strongly. There are people in the security arena who think that this is the only way to fight cybercrime – and in parallel accept that they would kill freedom of speech. I recently had a good discus ...

Posted 17 March 2010 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Privacy, Identity Management

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Data Protection Day: An Interesting Study

As you might know, it was time for the Data Protection Day in Europe again. Unfortunately I did not find the videos from this year’s competition, yet but I guess we will find them later on the page and on YouTube. However, we released a study on Privacy that is pretty interesting. Find t ...

Posted 29 January 2010 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Privacy

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Thoughts on the registered traveler programmes at airports

When I entered the US this time, I got a brochure on how I could avoid the line at immigration and just get a fast track by registering with the Global Entry Program, a programme, which would pre-screen me and then I just have to register with a machine by entering the US. As I understand, this is a ...

Posted 30 September 2009 by Roger Halbheer

tags: Privacy, Processes

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