In his article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy titled “Top 10 Threats to Computer Systems Include Professors and Students,” Jeffrey Young says
Today a growing number of network bad guys are professional criminals, and they’re looking to steal real money. They don’t just want to post an embarrassing note on your college’s home page. They [...]
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In an opinion piece in this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle called, “Is Google Evil?”, Randall Stross discusses how Google is amassing a wealth of data on its users. This includes documents stored in Google Docs, discussions on Google Groups, personal appointments in Google Calendar, email in Gmail, photos in Picasa, etc. He [...]
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The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a study of Americans’ use of “cloud computing,” in which data and applications are stored online and are accessible via Web browsers.
As more and more nonprofits move to using hosted customer-relationship management tools (CRMs) and venture into the world of social networking sites where data and [...]
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The Pew survey on cloud computing reminded me of a discussion that Aspiration led in March, 2008. The topic was Best Practices for Hosted Data. The recommendations that emerged were:
Know where all of your data lives (what Aspiration called “your data universe”). Keep this inventory up to date.
Make sure you have [...]
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The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a study of Americans’ use of “cloud computing,” in which data and applications are stored online and are accessible via web browsers. The findings include:
69% of online Americans use webmail, store data online, or use web-based software programs.
Users report high levels of concern that companies [...]
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According to the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego, 449 data breaches have been reported as of August 22 2008, compared to 446 in all of 2007. The breaches included consumer data as well as data from nonprofit and educational organizations.
Lost and stolen laptops (and other digital media) were the largest category reported, comprising 21 [...]
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