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Recent investigations by German authorities discovered that the Google street car was recording information about Wireless Access Points it detected during its journeys. More seriously it was revealed that the system recording that data was also gathering any data being transmitted over any unsecured wireless networks it detected. Google claims that this was a mistake and [...]
I got an email today pointing me to this story in Time magazine, Trying to Escape the Surveillance State, where a journalist tries to live for a month without his privacy being impinged. It led to a conversation about privacy and whether or not there is privacy on the Internet or will people pay the [...]
The 21st annual report from the Data Protection Commissioner’s office has been released. As usual it makes for some very interesting reading. The report notes that the number of breaches reported to the office has doubled since the previous year. Most of these reported breaches are from organisations within the public sector. While the first [...]
The 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 seminar is due to be held on the 18th and 19th of February 2009. I will be giving and Interactive case study on Identity Theft at the seminar. As a speaker I am happy to be able to pass on a discounted rate to those of [...]
The European Network and Information Security Agency have recently released their latest position paper on “Security and Privacy in Virtual Worlds and Gaming”. The paper looks into the risks users of virtual online worlds and gamine platforms face from issues such as malware attacks, phishing and privacy issues.
I have been asked to speak at the 4th Annual Privacy & Data Protection Ireland 2009 which is scheduled for next February. My talk is titled “Identity Theft: An Interactive Study”and I will be using my experience in stealing Marie Boran’s, from the SiliconRepublic.com, identity which she wrote up and I posted about earlier. There are a [...]
It appears that a security breach at Deutche Telekom in 2006 exposed personal details of over 17 million customers of its mobile phone division, T-Mobile. The company claims that no credit card or financial details were exposed but that information such as email addresses as well as mobile numbers and addresses was exposed. The company [...]
It has been an interesting week to say the least with regards to information security breaches in Ireland. First we heard of the responses to Ruairi Quinn’s question as to how many portable devices belonging to government departments have gone missing this year. So far over 45 devices have been lost. Damien Mulley has a breakdown [...]
The Irish Computer Society‘s Privacy Forum is a platform to enable IT professionals to learn about the latest best practises in data protection and privacy. Our Principal Consultant, Brian Honan, will be addressing the forum on October the 16th on the topic of managing a data breach in your organisation. If you wish to register [...]
Thanks to Digitial Rights Ireland for pointing me in the direction of today’s Irish Time’s editorial calling for the introduction of Data Breach Disclosure laws. It is good to see this issue get such a public platform and raise the awareness as to why I and Digital Rights Ireland have been calling for such laws to [...]