Archive for the ‘ Privacy ’ Category
A recent report showed that in an analysis of 32 million passwords, 5 of the top 10 passwords were a sequence of numbers from 1 to 9 (i.e., “123456″, “12345″, “123456789″, etc.). Furthermore, studies showed that nearly half of all passwords are considered “weak” or “trivial” by most password systems (in other words, easy to [ READ MORE ]
Here is an interesting article suggesting that government cybercrime investigators are pushing for the creation of a national Web interface so internet wiretap requests can be sent and received electronically. While this certainly would make my job a lot easier, I believe the privacy that we would give up in this scenario far outweighs the [ READ MORE ]
Here’s an interesting article about the information that is stored about you on Facebook: Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee In essence, not only does Facebook record every click you make and every photo you view, but (sometimes) Facebook employees will view your private profiles, and (rarely) even manipulate your profile data! A sobering thought, [ READ MORE ]
Just goes to show that even the best biometric data can be fooled. Woman alters fingerprints to fool scanners [ READ MORE ]
Today is International Data Privacy Day. There’s a website at Intel which tells you all about it (Including the Top 5 Teen Privacy Tips) so definitely check it out. Of course, being in the Computer Forensics business I know all about the digital traces you leave behind, so in order to keep my job I [ READ MORE ]