Robert Lemos

The social networking site has paired up with an ID verification firm to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community.
SecurityFocus

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Most companies monitor their employees in some way, but is corporate Big Brother going too far?
PC Magazine

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Hewlett-Packard’s CEO Mark Hurd immediately replaces former chairperson Patricia Dunn as the company acknowledges it knew about the “pretexting” but not about the “hacking.”
SecurityFocus

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The fallout from the Hewlett-Packard board investigation has brought up a lot of interesting issues, not the least of which is how journalists should try and keep their sources confidential. The unauthorized accesses to journalists’ and sources’ phone-records underscored that in this day and age it is hard to keep sources anonymous.

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Hewlett-Packard announces that the chairwoman will resign in January, while California’s Attorney General and civil lawsuits aim to use cybercrime laws to reign in investigators that abused computer access to “pretext” the phone records of reporters and directors.
SecurityFocus

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For some, DRM stands for Down-Right Maddening. Here’s why you should think twice about downloading DRM-protected files.
PC Magazine

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A brief analysis of the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program using Bayes Theorem concluded that the program has no value for fighting terrorism, but seems to make the mistake of assuming the program operates in a vacuum.

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A recent change to AT&T’s privacy policy for broadband and video users has been labeled overbroad by legal experts, and likely will leave the courts or Congress to decide whether the company’s practices are standard or sinister.
SecurityFocus

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Hardly a week goes by without companies and universities losing digital identities. What can be done?
PC Magazine

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I saw this post over at the EmergentChaos blog and wanted to provide some different numbers. Basically, Adam estimates that 8.9 percent of the U.S. population is affected by the recent data leak at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Actually, the percentage at risk is a bit higher, if you look at the right population.

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