by Alex W. | Mar 12, 2014 | Big data, Fraud, Identity, Organisations, Privacy
Privacy strengthened in Australia The Australian Privacy Principles come into force on 12 March. The APPs extend coverage of privacy laws to most business with turnover of $3 million or more. Fines of $1.7 million are possible for breaches. Australian Privacy...
by Alex W. | Dec 9, 2013 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Organisations
ENISA has released a good practice guide for CERTs that are tasked with protecting industrial control systems (SCADA). The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) publishes a lot of advice and recommendations on good practice in information...
by Alex W. | Sep 26, 2013 | Big data, Crime, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Identity
Cyber Identity theft service sold personal information on US citizens by compromising multinational consumer and business data aggregators An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of US...
by Alex W. | Sep 6, 2013 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Government large and small
Have the NSA and GCHQ been building vulnerabilities into commercial encryption products? If this is true, another argument for open source software has been made. Articles in the New York Times and the Guardian alleged that the N.S.A. has been deliberately weakening...
by Alex W. | Jul 19, 2013 | Crime, Fraud, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, Organisations, Quirky
A culture of entitlement is corrosive in a government agency or any organisation I’ve just come across a USA government document which is both fun to read and educational. Its called the Encyclopedia of ethical failure 2013, its published by the US Defense...
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