Branden Williams at the Security Convergence Blog has this outstanding article about places your personal data can reside that you rarely consider. Folks, don’t forget, that every one of these devices that you plug into the wall or has a battery is basically a computer. Sure, it may not be the one that you are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘personally identifiable information’
Computers everywhere
Posted: April 7, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: computer, NetFlix, personally identifiable information, PII, TiVo
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Security ideas for your mom revisited
Posted: October 12, 2008 in general, professional, securityTags: anti-virus, Bitlocker, del.icio.us, facebook, firewall, full disk encryption, Gibson Research, GRC, malware, MySpace, NAT router, password manager, personally identifiable information, PII, sandbox, Sandboxie, security suite, strong passwords, TrueCrypt, VaultletSuite 2 Go, Virtualization, Web 2.0, wireless access points
Information security for everyone is a big deal with me. I even have a weblog devoted to that very ideal. So Julie Seedorf’s Something About Nothing article, “Be careful of what you store on computers” definitely resonated with me. I read an article from PC Magazine recently. It was titled “Day in the Life of [...]
Sarah Palin and the great Yahoo! angst
Posted: September 21, 2008 in general, professional, securityTags: Alan Shimel, blogoshere, email, Google Mail, Hotmail, passwords, personally identifiable information, risk management, Sarah Palin, security, Security Bloggers Network, webmail, wikileaks, Yahoo
I’ve really been trying to stay out of this one. I really have. Mostly because everyone, and I do mean everyone, has this story covered. While mainstream media, in stories like this, were concentrating on where to place blame, whether nasty sites like wikileaks are legal (while dutifully linking the prurient details) and whether Ms. [...]
