The government commission that investigated the financial crisis said two presidential administrations and the Federal Reserve Bank shared the blame. “The greatest tragedy would be to accept the refrain that no one could have seen this coming and thus nothing could have been done,” the report says. “If we accept this notion, it will happen [...]
Researchers at Lancaster University have showcased an app that enables young people to find out if their online peers are really adults masquerading as children. The Child Defense app has been developed by a team of scientists working at Isis Forensics – a Lancaster University spin out company – with the help of children and [...]
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) could soon release new guidelines for banks to use when authenticating users to online banking transactions. The new guidelines will clarify the FFIEC’s existing guidelines on the subject and more explicitly inform banks about what they need to do to bolster online authentication, said Avivah Litan, an analyst [...]
Q: Growing tired of the Facebook privacy scandals, I tried to leave the social network, but you need to be a member now to access a number of outside websites. How can I get around this? A: Facebook, as you’re well aware by this point, has a history of privacy scandals. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is [...]
Mozilla, the developer of the Firefox browser, is working a feature that will allow users to opt-out of online behavioral advertising. The goal is to give users “a deeper understanding of and control over personal information online,” Mozilla’s head of privacy said in a blog posted on Sunday. The feature will allow users to configure their [...]
In a high-tech world where incidents of ultramodern cybercrime are rapidly becoming the norm, it seems that something as straightforward and arcane as a person’s signature — even an electronic one — would be a simple and effortless target for criminals. But behind every electronic signature used in banking and tax transactions is a multipronged, [...]
The current discussions about online privacy threaten to ruin the “beauty of the Internet,” according to a top journalism professor and advocate for “publicness.” “There is a danger if we put too much into privacy protection,” said Jeff Jarvis, outspoken columnist, blogger and associate professor of the City University of New York’s graduate school of [...]
It has become one of the perils of everyday life on the information highway — a cyberattack. For the Pentagon, which operates 15,000 networks and owns more than a million computers, the risks are huge. Though Defense systems are attacked constantly — 5,000 times per day by some accounts, and scanned millions of times per [...]
Facebook made a quick retreat Monday (Jan. 17), announcing it would “temporarily” disable a brand-new feature that lets third-party applications harvest users’ phone numbers and home addresses. The feature had been debuted with a quiet Facebook blog posting on Friday afternoon, Jan. 14. It said the feature would let users “easily share your address and mobile [...]
With 2011 off to a great start, we thought now would be the perfect time for a refresher course about basic online privacy protection. In fact, this would serve as a wonderful opportunity for parents to sit down with their children to review how we can all stay safe online. To jumpstart that conversation, here [...]
