December 16th, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
The Estonian Parliament has passed a law that will allow its citizens to vote via cell phone by 2011. In the past, Estonians were able to cast their votes over the Internet which apparently worked seamlessly despite security concerns. See Sara Peters’ coverage of e-voting in Estonia in the November 2005 Alert, Academic Group Publishes Criticisms of e-Voting.
The cell phones will each have a free, authorized chip for their phone that will verify each ...
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December 10th, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
There are some ways to effectively begin securing your information in the cloud. We’ve recently been pondering whether or not one can prove compliance with security and privacy regulations in the cloud. Luckily, while cloud services still may not be right for handling health or payment card information, security vendors and cloud service providers are beginning to offer ways to effectively secure your cloud-based computing resources and satisfy some compliance requirements.
Last week, Third Brigade announced ...
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December 2nd, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
Earlier this week it was implied that early warnings of an Islamic terrorist attack were ‘lost in the system.’ At this time, I am not able to find a credible enough source to prove whether or not this was actually the case, but it is rumored that the warning was specific in that the attack would come from the sea. Nine days before terrorists arrived by boat to launch a three-day assault on Mumbai, apparently ...
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November 24th, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
From a legal point of view, if you work for a publically traded company, you must meet certain terms of compliance. However, even if your organization is compliant while using a cloud service provider, the big question remains: who is liable for the data? There is always a risk when using a provider, but David Barley, Chief Technology Officer for Casdex, (a digital archiving firm that also ensures full compliance and security) said, “At the ...
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November 12th, 2008 | By Robert Richardson | No Comments »
New Out of Band Podcast: Jim Heimberg, Director, INFOSEC Services at Leverage Information Services talks about Cultural Risks and Information Security.
Sponsored by CompTIA.
[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/csi/oob_comptia.mp3]
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November 4th, 2008 | By Sara Peters | No Comments »
If voters do not even have confidence in the voting machines recommended by the Verified Voting Foundation, what hope have we in any voting system in use today?
Luckily none of the technical problems thusfar experienced by voters have been called "systemic," but rather are isolated incidents.
Nonetheless, it was no doubt frustrating and perhaps shocking to some citizens, when after waiting in line for hours at their local polling places, they were told that the optical ...
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October 31st, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
According to LinuxInsider, a 43-year-old piano teacher was arrested after she murdered her virtual, recently-divorced husband's avatar in Maple Story. (Maple Story is Japan's equivalent to the virtual world of SecondLife). She had apparently used his login information and password (that he gave her during the happy years of their 'marriage') in order to perpetrate the crime.
Authorities were first alerted to this crime by the 'husband,' who came online to discover the murdered body of ...
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October 27th, 2008 | By Sara Peters | No Comments »
The United Kingdom's government said unequivacobly that UK will not now, nor in the forseeable future, adopt electronic voting. According to today's story at The Register:
Michael Wills, a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, was asked if the government planned to introduce e-voting before the local and European elections in 2009. He said last week: "The Government do not plan to introduce e-voting for the 2009 European or local elections ... The ...
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October 27th, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
We’re always particularly interested in what our readers are thinking. We’re hoping you’ll help us out by taking this survey about your Web 2.0 practices and perspectives. (It’s only eight questions, and you can answer as many or as few as you’d like.) http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gRr0L0jG0BwO0SiqZ2fBaw_3d_3d.
The results will be discussed during our CSI members-only call. To become a member and join the call, visit http://www.gocsi.com/membership. We’ll review and discuss the results of the survey, give a ...
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October 24th, 2008 | By Kristen Romonovich | No Comments »
Google designed Chrome to be faster, more stable and most importantly, more secure than other Web browsers. So with these features in mind, Google Chrome was built from scratch to be a Web browser designed for today’s web application users. As more businesses venture into the cloud, it’s becoming increasingly important that your browser doesn’t crash when you’re creating reports in Google Docs or when you’re video conferencing. In order to prevent crashes, Google Chrome ...
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