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Are You Ready for the Identity Economy?
With Facebook’s value being pegged around 100 billion dollars; it is easy to see why many are calling identity the new oil of the internet. And one company, UnboundID is looking to become the leader in this bold new frontier...
NQ Mobile Protects Android Phones from Malware and Viruses
Last year Roger McNamee mentioned that he doesn’t think Android has a bright future because of the malicious apps proliferating on the platform and to his point Android malware is up over 400% with no signs of slowing down. This...
Chinese Nortel Hack Unconfirmed by my Sources
Although reports have been swirling regarding Chinese hackers breaking into Nortel's computers for over ten years in order to steal trade secrets, I have been unable to confirm such a breach took place. I have tapped into a few high-level...
Monkeybars Lets Social Could Cut Out Middlemen
Think of all the ways technology has changed commerce. Most every city for example was littered with photo processing huts and with the advent of sites like ofoto, now part of Kodak and entire layer of businesses between the buyer...
Positive LifeLock Experience
Being on the front lines of tech and communications news I am aware of so many data breaches that identity theft scares me. As a result I subscribed to LifeLock over a year ago and have questioned the investment a...
Imagining a World with Electronic Passports
There is something – Oh I don’t know – let’s say backwards when it comes to traveling on an airplane. In an age of state-of-the-art electronics – smartphones with dual-core processors and amazing screens, why do we need paper passports...
Identity Management is the Decade's Killer App and Facebook Knows it
How long before we hear the TSA say, "Boarding pass and Facebook ID please?"Have we gotten to the point where Facebook has become so dominant as an online identity system that is going to enter the real world with business...
Selling your Privacy Evolves with Amazon Silk Browser
Amazon's new Silk browser bundled with its new Kindle Fire will leverage it's own servers for browser proxying meaning that all the websites you surf will go through the company's cloud-based servers. Although browser proxying is not new, it has...
Electronic Health Records Only as Strong as Weakest Link
It is becoming commonplace to find that organizations of virtually all sizes are getting hacked and their data compromised. Sony and the CIA are just some of the latest we have heard of.Let's be clear, these are some very high-profile...
News Corp. PhoneGate Analysis and Suggestions
Based on the constant media coverage you should all be aware that reporters at a now shuttered News Corp. newspaper broke into voicemail accounts in order to get scoops. News Corp is certainly center-right in its reporting - depending on...
Porn Stars Warn Against Malware and Spyware
The porn industry has been suffering as of late due to the rise of free sites which provide cloud-based movie clips and this makes a bad situation worse as p2p porn sharing has exploded with growth over the last decade....
Will Future Hackers Be Short-Sellers?
If you are publicly traded in a country where shorting is allowed – you are a bigger target One can’t help but wonder if the opportunity currently exists for hackers to find loopholes in the security of publicly traded...
Is Android Security Really an Issue?
Yesterday I showcased an interview with investing legend Roger McNamee, managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners but what I didn't mention was the following comment he made, "I don't trust Android because some 16-year-old kid in the Eastern Bloc...
HTML5 to Allow 15-year Post Internet Boom Mega-Cycle
Investing legend Roger McNamee, managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners was interviewed on CNBC this morning and explained why he is bullish on the tech sector. He goes on to say Apple is winning and tell us why. He...
How Cloud Computing Could Destroy VARs
A typical VAR is used to frequently selling large ticket items which may not all have the largest margins but in volume can throw off a good amount of cash and profit. As a result, many resellers have developed a...
Electronic Warfare is the Future. Are You Ready?
Stuxnet is Victory at Entebbe 2.0 The Stuxnet worm alleged to be the work of Israel and the US was designed to target and disable Iranian centrifuges by increasing their speeds to dangerous levels while reporting to operators that all...
More Crimes Perpetrated Using Facebook
TMC's Juliana Kenny discusses the new Blackboard Mobile Central Campus service as well as Facebook security including hacks which involve breaking into accounts in order to send nude photos of the victims to their contacts. Moreover, she discusses Facebook related...
Cloud-Based Brute Force Attacks to Test Computer Security
Love it or hate it, the cloud is allowing some incredible things to take place such as being able to offer anyone the power of a supercomputer for pricing in line with a cup of coffee. Barry Levine writes about...
Ready, Aim, Send: Military Embraces Smartphones
It is not as if the US government has slowed spending to keep up with the general economy so it comes as a surprise to me that we haven't been issuing a couple of smartphones apiece to soldiers in the...
FTC Do Not Track = Unintended Consequences?
Will a new do not track list and law kill the Internet - or severely limit it? Would consumers suffer because your user name, password and credit card info will have to be entered in every site, every time you...
What if Someone is Trying to Steal This Data?
Google apologized for inadvertently collecting passwords, phone numbers, emails and other personal information with its street view cars. My question is what if they or worse – a malicious party is actually trying to get their hands on this data?...
Facebook Privacy in Sad Shape
The very notion that there is any privacy online should die quickly when you see the latest article on the matter from the Wall Street Journal which shows many apps on Facebook are not only sharing lots of personal information...
Do Not Connect to Free Public WiFi
Last week at ITEXPO in Los Angeles there was the standard Free Public WiFi option which you see virtually anywhere there are other wireless devices. I know not to click on this network now but I am sure I was...
Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook Reveals Much on 60 Minutes
If you missed the 60 Minutes interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, here are some things you need to know: The engineers engage in hackathons - allowing engineers to compete on programming tasks Speed chess and all-night programming are activities...
New Spam Outbreak hits TMC
Recently, one of TMC's e-mail accounts has been getting flooded with thousands of spam messages which a coworker thought were from Russia. Here is a sample: From: R3Ou6pf@125.234.48.137.hcm.viettel.vn [mailto:R3Ou6pf@125.234.48.137.hcm.viettel.vn] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: Content-Type: text/plain;...
