IBM Wraps Up Big Data Storage Software Firm Buy; Deidre Paknad Comments
IBM has completed its acquisition of an Austin, Texas-based data storage software provider aimed at expanding its big data portfolio. This acquisition complements IBM’s previous buys of PSS Systems and its 2012 pickup of Vivisimo as well as information economics tools for archiving, records and retention management, e-discovery management and disposal and data governance, IBM [...]
NJVC is marking the worldwide Cyber Privacy Day by releasing a white paper authored by Robert Michalsky, a company cybersecurity principal. The goal of Michalsky’s paper, NJVC said, is to examine the need for security metrics, cyber analytics and human intelligence to track information technology system anomalies and cyber threats before enterprises are hit. “As [...]
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Average Internet users who think online privacy tools adequately protect them have a problem according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers: the tools do not work all that well. In a 38-page report, the researchers determined the tools were more likely to confuse the average user and may in fact do the opposite of what the [...]
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To address the challenges of securing the privacy of citizens’ personal identifiable information, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released a new draft document yesterday that suggests adding privacy controls to the catalog of security controls used to protect federal information and information systems. According to NIST, the new Privacy Control Catalog would be [...]
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The popular professional social-networking website LinkedIn’s has vulnerabilities that make users’ accounts susceptible to hackers who could break in without needing passwords, according to a security researcher who detected the flaw. News of the vulnerability emerged only days after LinkedIn Corp went public last week. Rishi Narang, an Internet security researcher based in India, who [...]
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The European Union’s cybersecurity agency has published a report on the security and privacy concerns regarding new types of online cookies, advocating for more transparency of how they are used and calling for a user-friendly mechanism to remove them whenever needed. The policy report Bittersweet cookies: Some security and privacy considerations from the European Network [...]
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As America’s healthcare industry scurries to transition from paper medical records to electronic counterparts and meeting the 2015 meaningful-use requirements, experts raise flags about the security and warn about the downside to moving into an all-digital system. Electronic Health Records, or EHRs, are perceived as a method to enhance care and save billions of dollars [...]
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In an effort to promote the vast economic opportunity of the Internet and protecting citizens’ online privacy, the National Science and Technology Council has launched a new subcommittee on privacy and Internet policy. Cameron Kerry, general counsel at the Department of Commerce, and Christopher Schroeder, assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, will co-chair [...]
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Earlier this year, The New New Internet reported that a school district in Pennsylvania had remotely activated a camera and caught a student taking pills (the student claimed he was eating candy). According to recently filed court documents, the school secretly activated the cameras and captured thousands of images that included students sleeping and in [...]
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The German Constitutional Court has overruled a 2008 law which required telecommunications companies to keep communications data for six months. The law was passed to aid in counter terrorist operations and combating transnational crime and required telecom companies to maintain logs for SMS messages, e-mails, calls, faxes and Internet use. Around 35,000 German nationals filed [...]
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