Computerworld-Late next year,consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone:one for personal use,one for work. The technology could ...
Tags: Dual-identity smartphones, app, the bring-your-own-device(BYOD)
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is set to host the first of several meetings seeking input for its effort to develop new codes of conduct for handling private consumer date on the Internet and mobile ...
Tags: NTIA, private consumer, privacy practices, Bill of Rights, FTC
Security analysts this week challenged South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's defense of the state's information security practices in the wake of a data breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue that exposed the Social Security Numbers ...
Mobile carriers and app providers do not consistently or clearly disclose to customers how they use location information and other personal data, according to a new report from government auditor the U.S. Government Accountability Office ...
Tags: senator, location data, US, Computer Products
Computerworld - A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about 100,000 members of the professional association. In a blog ...
Tags: IEEE FTP server, web server, IEEE Site, User IDs
Personally identifiable information of "at least" 10,000 NASA employees and contractors remains at risk of compromise following last month's theft of an agency laptop, a spokesman told Computerworld via email Thursday. Agency employees ...
Tags: US, computer security, IT industry, NASA
Computerworld - Research in Motion Wednesday released a BlackBerry PlayBook OS update that adds full device encryption to secure personal data stored on the device to go along with the already-available encryption for corporate data. The ...
Tags: BlackBerry PlayBook OS, personal data, corporate data, company news
Japan's Elecom said Tuesday it will launch the world's first smartphone keyboard that uses NFC touch-card technology to link with Android handsets. The keyboard is designed with a large gap down its middle in which a phone is placed ...
Tags: Smartphone, keyboard, touch card, Computer Products
The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
A new survey by technical support website FixYa indicates that users of the top five cloud storage services are most concerned about capacity, security and missing files. FixYa asked users of its service about the top five issues cloud ...
Tags: issues, FixYa, cloud storage services, capacity, security, missing files
SECAUCUS, NJ, June 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- OrangeHRM Inc. a global leader in HRIS development for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, launched OrangeAM (Absence Management System) with improved and sophisticated leave ...
Tags: OrangeAM, Absence Management System, standalone service
The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in Germany, the lawyer who requested the inquiry said Thursday. In ...
Tags: Google, Street View, WiFi Sniffing, Germany
Companies and public sector organisations in the UK need to tread warily when it comes to performing customer data analytics. But there are opportunities for those who educate their constituencies and are clear about what customer data is ...
Tags: UK, data, customer data analytics, Deloitte, security
A Cisco Linksys router update which connected customers' routers to its Connect Cloud service without their knowledge and the company's licensing terms around user data has recharged privacy and security concerns surrounding cloud services. ...
Tags: Cisco, router, update, cloud services, privacy, security
Online dating site eHarmony has also been hit by the theft of millions of passwords,some of which professional networking site LinkedIn confirmed corresponded to members'accounts. The confirmation came after reports that 6.5 million ...