Should the federal government combine legislative muscle with fear to pressure private enterprise leaders into funding defenses for a cyberwar? Or should it be up to the government to fund and create a "cyber army" to protect private industry, just as it protects factories and infrastructure in the physical world?
Taylor Armerding | 15 May | Read more
To the FBI, it would be substantively the same as what the agency has had the authority to do for generations with a court warrant: wiretap phones to listen in on possibly criminal communications. To privacy and civil liberties advocates, it amounts to another expansion of the FBI's already excessive authority to spy on innocent American citizens.
Taylor Armerding | 11 May | Read more
Modern enterprises can't stay out of the cloud and remain competitive -- their employees use the cloud to connect in their personal lives, and they want to do the same in their professional lives.
Taylor Armerding | 10 May | Read more
There are plenty of reasons for the cliche known as FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) in the cyberworld. There are a staggering number of threats online, and any number of vendors trying to ease the minds of computer users with security products.
Taylor Armerding | 10 May | Read more
It sounds like a privacy hole big enough for a truckload of your personal information to be leaked to the world, but experts say a recently disclosed Windows 8 privacy issue is really a non-issue.
Taylor Armerding | 09 May | Read more
Despite a public relations problem with the concept as it applies to people, a few voices in Internet security circles believe "stand your cybergound" laws have merit when it comes to fighting against cyberattacks.
Taylor Armerding | 08 May | Read more
It is not news that Facebook, the behemoth of social networking, is less than aggressive about protecting the personal privacy of its 900 million users. But even relatively savvy users may not be aware of how much of their information is collected, how it is used and how little control they may have over it.
Taylor Armerding | 05 May | Read more
Is a cyberattack by Iran against the U.S. a realistic threat? And if so, could it be defeated by a technique called "bullet time," that slows Internet traffic just enough to give critical infrastructure defense systems time to respond?
Taylor Armerding | 04 May | Read more
Enterprise sector support for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is hardly crumbing. But there is a crack in the wall.
Taylor Armerding | 03 May | Read more
If anybody still thought Apple devices were bulletproof, the Flashback drive-by episode last month should have provided the needed reality check.
Taylor Armerding | 02 May | Read more
Cloud providers ought to provide data security -- that should be obvious. But some providers themselves, along with some security analysts, say they also ought to be doing more, such as educating their customers about best security practices.
Taylor Armerding | 02 May | Read more
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the proposed federal law passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives that would promote the sharing of cyber threat information between private business and government, has generated plenty of outrage among privacy advocates.
Taylor Armerding | 30 Apr | Read more
The explosion of outrage from privacy advocates over Google Drive's terms of service appears to have subsided somewhat, after a number of analysts agreed with the company that its terms are no more intrusive than those of other cloud storage services like Dropbox, Microsoft's Skydrive or Apple's iCloud.
Taylor Armerding | 27 Apr | Read more
If President Barack Obama is going to win a second term, he may have to do it without the support of privacy and civil liberties organizations, including those in information and personal security.
Taylor Armerding | 26 Apr | Read more
Another government safety net is going away July 9.
Taylor Armerding | 25 Apr | Read more