Information Protection and Security

Users need to be able to recognize illicit attempts to elicit their account information.Microsoft recommends customers use the following protective security measures:

Do we really want Facebook to keep peering into updates meant just for friends and family? The research serves as a good reminder about cybersecurity -- after all, it is National Cybersecurity Month. If you put something on Facebook, no matter how tight your privacy settings are, Facebook Inc. can still hang onto it, analyze it, remix it and repackage it.

Records of more than 70 million military personnel may be at risk after loss of unerased hard drive, report says.

The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought.

Users would be told how their files might be shared.
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Citizens unexpectedly renounce spying and subterfuge.
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Think it’s easy to spot phishing?  Recent reports from national universities suggest that 3 of 5 faculty members were successfully phished, and 1 of 5 students and staff.  We still have some work to do to convince people not to click on that link in email…or provide personal information over an insecure network (insecure wireless or email).
STOP. THINK. SECURE IT!

A draft report published today by the task group heading up the security strategy and architecture for the nation's smart power grid provided an initial peek at how the grid may be secured.
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Computerworld - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Friday began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data.

Google has resolved a lawsuit from a US bank that accidentally sent 1,300 confidential tax IDs to an innocent Gmail account, but not before the web giant complied with a court order to shutdown the account and disclose certain account info.