Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments

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• Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments
• Data breach fines can risk more harm than good, experts say
• 'Byzantine Hades' shows China's cyber chops
• Watch out for the tinfoil hat brigade
• iPhone Location Tracking Draws Fire, Shrugs
• Groups push for additions to Google Buzz settlement
• Adobe patches Reader bug early as PDF attacks begin
• Apple faces questions from Congress about iPhone tracking
• Security firm founder Kaspersky's son reportedly kidnapped in Russia

Study: Bias, rivalries can threaten UC deployments Posted: 22 Apr 2011 08:22 AM PDT Contention and biases among technology and business factions can derail the deployment of unified communications systems that are efficient, cost-effective and simple enough to use so they actually get adopted by end users, according to a Forrester Research study.

Data breach fines can risk more harm than good, experts say Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:55 AM PDT Are regulatory and security breach fines protecting the consumer, or beginning to unduly drive security policy? As penalties begin to be levied against organizations who have been attacked, or employees violated data policy, some experts now question whether the government is penalizing one of the victims in a crime, rather than helping to mitigate the risk of identity theft -- as the laws were first intended.

'Byzantine Hades' shows China's cyber chops Posted: 22 Apr 2011 05:53 AM PDT Cyber espionage attacks from China are nothing new, but public awareness of the attacks is growing.

Watch out for the tinfoil hat brigade Posted: 22 Apr 2011 03:00 AM PDT The United States Department of Commerce recently announced the final release of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). While there was some discussion in the technical press, and a bit in the general press, there doesn't seem to have been nearly as much controversy as when the Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, brought it up at an event at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research last January.

iPhone Location Tracking Draws Fire, Shrugs Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:55 AM PDT Tech analysts differ on the seriousness of the iPhone location-tracking controversy.

Groups push for additions to Google Buzz settlement Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:34 AM PDT Privacy and consumer groups want additions to the FTC's settlement with Google over Buzz.

Adobe patches Reader bug early as PDF attacks begin Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:38 AM PDT Adobe on Thursday patched a critical bug in Adobe Reader, its popular PDF viewer, beating its self-imposed deadline by several days.

Apple faces questions from Congress about iPhone tracking Posted: 20 Apr 2011 11:24 PM PDT Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.), who chairs a new privacy panel set up in February, yesterday asked Apple to explain why its iPhones are tracking users' locations.

Security firm founder Kaspersky's son reportedly kidnapped in Russia Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:16 AM PDT Several news services are reporting that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs, has been kidnapped for ransom in Russia.

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