http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html Interesting article on Skype privacy and security – do those of you who use Skype have risk management strategies that they can recommend?
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← Older postsThe push towards moving the healthcare industry conversion to electronic collection and storage of health encounter data has increased concern for the potential impact on patient privacy. This has generated increased interest by various healthcare stakeholders in providing input to … Continue reading
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CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) which was defeated in a previous attempt at legislation has been restored and is making it’s way through congress for another round. Today it was passed out of committee without any additional privacy … Continue reading
ISACA Members – Digital Forensics Webinar Available for Free Continuing Education – Thursday March 28th – Register now
March 26, 2013Below is a link to register for a webinar being offered on March 28th at 11AM CDT as a joint community service by Capella University and ISACA. http://www.isaca.org/Education/Online-Learning/Pages/Webinar-Digital-Forensics-E-Discovery.aspx
Below is a link to a workshop that is being held at Anoka Ramsey College in the evening on April 9th. For those of you in or near the college this is a free to students or alumni of MnScu and very … Continue reading
There is a fast growing demand, but short supply, of well-trained information security professionals. Join us in our commitment to ensuring the pipeline of today is being filled for the needs of tomorrow. Forward this email to any and all … Continue reading
Interesting article on strategies for ‘hiding’ information in plain site: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-steganography.html
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NIST is offering some forensic science workshops in April and May of 2013. Below is the URL to registration information if you are interested. http://www.nist.gov/oles/forensics-030513.cfm
There is a link to the national news that describes an incident that presents some interesting conflicts: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-montreal-college-after-finding-sloppy-coding-that-compromised-security-of-250000-students-personal-data/ A student was expelled according to the article because he found poorly written code while working on a project. Finding and reporting … Continue reading
A recent discovery of a vulnerability in JAVA has some security professionals including some in the government recommending that users disable JAVA in their browsers until a fix can be developed and distributed. Do you agree with this advice? Tell … Continue reading