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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Your home address and phone number are now part of the information dump third-party developers can obtain through Facebook-powered Website logins and applications. A new policy lets you authorize applications such as Facebook games and quizzes, and Websites that you log into with your Facebook ID access some of your most personal Facebook data. Facebook [...]
A lot of people complain that the government isn’t doing enough to prevent identity theft from happening in this country. Seeing as 12% of Americans have been victimized, it’s not hard to see things in this light. That being said, you may find it encouraging that something new is being done. The government is working [...]
International cybersecurity and censorship issues are coming to a boil in Tunisia, where the government is allegedly hacking into the Facebook, Gmail and Yahoo accounts of dissidents and journalists. Amidst widespread political and economic unrest in the North African country that began in late December, the Tunisian government has begun attacking the social media and e-mail accounts [...]
Anyone considering saying anything negative about the Obama Administration should think twice before sending it on an Internet outlet. Obama, under attack for continuing a war he promised to end, wants to find out what anti-war activists said on Twitter. The main target is Wikileaks, but the subpoenas also include tweets by a member of [...]
