I was asked to address this in the blog as well. Since 2001 I use a digital e-Mail-signature provided in a cost-free web-of-trust organized by Thawte, one of the leading providers of digital server signatures for websites. I also voluntarily confirm the idendity for the user(s) with 35 points. 50 points are needed to have [...]
Oh holy dear St. Florian Don’t burn my house Take the neighbors one Four related cases in the past weeks triggered this Food For Thought: German Rail – remember Lufthansa… The IT system of German Rail crashed, disabling not only the entire distribution for a day, but also the train guidance system EBULA causing major [...]
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is requesting that the use of a controversial identification document reading device, being deployed at U.S. borders, be temporarily halted until thorough testing can determine if it is a potential source of traveler identity theft. According to published reports, the new device can remotely read highly personal data [...]
A German saying asked “Do you still have sex or do you play golf already?” (Hast Du noch Sex oder golfst Du schon?). Adapting it this week to “Hast Du noch Privatsphäre oder googlest Du schon?” (see title). Following the general and naive media hype (can the media be truly that naive?!) about the new [...]
Best Western hit the media this week being reported to have been hacked and 8 million customer datasets being stolen. Best Western objected the news, mentioning they have no proof for such hack and they would delete their data anyway frequently. Say WHAT? Corporations spend millions acquiring customer data and Best Western deletes them? Hmmm… [...]
You are viewing the Data Security tag archives.