Have you seen this? According to ex Apple engineer, Pete Warden: “By downloading the Google Profile crawling code you can build your own data set, and it’s easy enough to build something similar for Twitter.” This is quite scary, to say the least. It’s scary on a personal level, yes; but on a business level, it is […]

News about the constantly developing battlefield of cyber warfare sometimes verges on an apocalyptic scene from a horror movie, threatening the unprecedented vulnerability of millions of people’s sensitive information. Knowing this, it makes sense for companies to invest some money to ensure that the system has full protection. All of the sensitive information stored on

Here’s a quote from a computer forensics expert at Harvard: “When retiring a hard drive, physical destruction makes information inaccessible.” It’s in a piece by Bill Brenner at Tech Target. The person quoted was a postdoctoral fellow, so he must know what he’s talking about. At first blush, it’s hard not to smile and think, Well, duh! when

Imagine the surprise of one Massachusetts couple who placed an order with Gap, Inc. for a tie and pocket square, only to receive confidential personnel files in the mail a few weeks later. That is exactly what happened, less than three weeks before their wedding. In a time when most companies are opting for personnel