Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk'

This is not really surprising, but it is interesting to see some real data. Anonymised data isn't particularly anonymous. If you think about your activities on a daily basis certain things would be pretty obvious based on your cell location data. It would likely be trivial to pinpoint your house and your place of work. It might also be easy to figure out where you get on and off of the bus, where you park your car, places you like to go for lunch etc.

BBC News - Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk': Recent work has increasingly shown that humans' patterns of movement, however random and unpredictable they seem to be, are actually very limited in scope and can in fact act as a kind of fingerprint for who is doing the moving.

94% of Healthcare Organizations Breached - BackgroundCheck.org

This is a really interesting info-graphic. 46% of breaches were for lost or stolen computing devices. That tells me that 46% of these losses could have been easily prevented by encrypting the data. Seems like such a simple solution. Unfortunately many organizations still think it is complex and costly.

94% of Healthcare Organizations Breached - BackgroundCheck.org

So I used to Have This Blog...

...then things got really busy (I think) and I stopped updating it. I think I'm going to start it up again. I'm going to be writing for Internet Evolution (first post coming next week) and I think this will be good for me to get the ideas flowing. I'm a WordPress guy and so I don't think I'll keep it here for ever and in fact I'm thinking I'll probably move it to my own domain (now currently hosting my photo blog). However, for now I'm going to continue to use Blogger and I'll see how things go. Stay tuned for, well, stuff.

…iPhone. iPhone Gets First Worm

If you’re an Australian and you’ve gone against Apple and jailbroken your iPhone, well, karma is coming to get you. There is a worm on the loose that at this point is only affecting Australian iPhone users. This one replaces the phone’s wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley.

The vector of attack is via the SSH application where the user has not changed the default password (more karma).

Experts say this likely is the first of many.

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Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

This is great, now Microsoft is recommending that you unistall the add-on they so kindly installed without your knowledge.

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

“National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2001, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure.

The success of National Cyber Security Awareness Month rests on all of us doing what we can to engage in awareness activities. There are opportunities for everyone from home users to major corporations and government entities to get involved.”

How To Get Involved

…PII. U.S. Government Suffers 'Largest Release Of Personally Identifiable Information Ever'

While this likely isn’t as bad as it sounds, it is still unbelievable to me that this is still happening. It very clearly shows that there is a lack of interest in keeping this information secure. American voters should be making this a priority for any new elections because eventually no one is going to have any personally identifiable information. The government is going to have carelessly let it all out into the public.

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