FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box
In launching FileLocker, InfraScale CEO Ken Shaw is claiming that both DropBox and Box have been “substantially misrepresenting their capabilities when it comes to security and won’t be adopted by enterprise or Government” because of it. Those are pretty strong words…
Presentation: Cloud Security Management – Overview and Challenges
What’s your first priority cloud security concern ? From an attacker’s perspective, cloud providers aggregate access to many victims’ data into a single point of entry. As the cloud environments become more and more popular, they will increasingly become the focus of attacks. Some organizations think that liability can be outsourced, but no, it cannot! [...]
Keeping Safe In The Cloud
The last few weeks have seen a seeming storm of examples of security breaches of cloud services. As is often the case when people have vested interests in a particular technology, many naysayers have pronounced that these security breaches spell the end of the cloud. Heck, even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak went on record saying: [...]
Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame
So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam e-mails and, in response, Dropbox has bought in a SWAT team of security experts
Video: Forecast 2012 Panel On Cloud Transparency
Last month Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) held their first conference by name Forecast 2012. I had an opportunity to moderate a panel on Cloud Transparency. Cloud Transparency is still a new idea for people but a vital one needed to build the much needed trust for organizations wanting to move their workloads to cloud. [...]
Facebook, Employers, and your username and password as a federated identity
This has been a very interesting week for employers and Facebook. I have been writing about this story over on Toolbox, here and here if you are interested in reading, but on this site I want to go a little deeper into the idea of asking prospective employees for a username and password to any [...]
Cooperating with Law Enforcement in Social Networking
Social Networking is facing the prospects of being deputized by the Australian Image via CrunchBase Federal Police, Facebook, and other social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the most important sources for intelligence about people. Forget neighbors talking to the police, now we are looking at our socially connected world as being involved with [...]
Canada is mulling over the idea that customers pay for their own phone surveillance
Canadian Bill C-30 proposes a tax on people purchasing internet and phone services so that the cost of paying for surveillance equipment or responding to Law Enforcement lookups will not burden either the government or the ISP/Phone Company. Canada plans on taxing users of systems so that they can be monitored by the government. There [...]
The cultural divide on data protection – USA vs EU
We are several months past the 10 year anniversary of the September 11 (9/11) attacks, but one of the significant consequences of that event a decade ago highlights the cultural divide between the USA and Europe on data protection. Data privacy has been hitting the news recently because of Google’s changes in their terms and [...]
One of the members of LulzSec reported to be an FBI mole
So much for not selling out your gang. It looks like Sabu one of the folks who has been speaking for LulzSec has been secretly working for the FBI according to multiple online reports. Lulzsec has been one of the leading hacking groups and has seriously gone after a ton of people, companies, and others [...]
On Privacy, US Legislation and Cloud Vendors
While in the US a week or two ago I spent some time talking with vendors about the security of Cloud data, in particular the impact of the DCMA and Patriot Act on non US customers of vendors. As part of my research I spent some time talking with Lindsay
AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy
AppSense, the NewYork based company focussed on Virtualization solutions, today announced their research wing, AppSense Labs, focussed on bridging the gap between personal services and enterprise. They also announced their first product under AppSense Labs called DataLocker (iTunes link for iPad and iPhone). This got my attention for two reasons: As the so called consumerization [...]
Mesh net Darknet plans over on Reddit in response to SOPA
Image by cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr Just thinking about the difficulties in rolling out a network is enough to make anyone’s head spin, but the boffins over at Reddit are thinking about doing just that in a direct response to SOPA. While this is an interesting idea there are some security things they are going to [...]
Kingdom Conquest from Sega, ITunes, and Theft
From what I have been able to research the Kingdom Conquest in app purchases that are unauthorized just keep on coming. It has been about a year now (based on what I was able to find) that this has been a known issue, with Apple giving refunds to customers. Given the amount of data, it [...]
Digital Realities
When technology shifts occur slowly, dramatic changes in how we live take place. Electricity allowed us to work late at night as opposed to until sundown. But when technology changes are more rapid – we tend to force it to adapt to our defined norms – baby steps. [eventually this post will get to the [...]
