In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled "Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students," Jeffrey Young says Today a growing number of network bad guys are professional criminals, and they're looking to steal real money. They don't just want to post an … [Read more...]
Is Google Evil?
In an opinion piece in this morning's San Francisco Chronicle called, "Is Google Evil?", Randall Stross discusses how Google is amassing a wealth of data on its users. This includes documents stored in Google Docs, discussions on Google Groups, personal appointments in Google Calendar, email in … [Read more...]
Pew Survey on Cloud Computing
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a study of Americans' use of "cloud computing," in which data and applications are stored online and are accessible via Web browsers. As more and more nonprofits move to using hosted customer-relationship management tools (CRMs) … [Read more...]
Best Practices for Hosted Data
The Pew survey on cloud computing reminded me of a discussion that Aspiration led in March, 2008. The topic was Best Practices for Hosted Data. The recommendations that emerged were: Know where all of your data lives (what Aspiration called "your data universe"). Keep this … [Read more...]
Pew Survey on Cloud Computing
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a study of Americans' use of “cloud computing,” in which data and applications are stored online and are accessible via web browsers. The findings include: 69% of online Americans use webmail, store data online, or use web-based … [Read more...]
2008 Data Breaches Have Surpassed All of 2007
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego, 449 data breaches have been reported as of August 22 2008, compared to 446 in all of 2007. The breaches included consumer data as well as data from nonprofit and educational organizations. Lost and stolen laptops (and other digital … [Read more...]