These were among the ideas that came up during a gathering of 150 academics and researchers this week at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California to explore ways of protecting privacy amid an explosion in the amount of personal...
The fact that technology can protect both security and privacy by protecting the computer systems and the information on them is a positive thing. Orwell didn't anticipate how technology can be used to protect privacy.
Republican sponsor Joe Pitts said in a statement: "Our legislation gives parents the tools they need to protect their children from pornography and threats to privacy posed by peer-to-peer file-trading networks.
All the firewall vendors are playing catch-up, when it comes to protecting against this threat. Browser-based attacks are typically unleashed when a person visits a web page that appears harmless but actually contains hidden code intended to...
This year more than any other was marred by a spate of data thefts, losses and fairly meagre surrenders by end users. With increasing amounts of information available and easily searchable online, attacks are becoming even more targeted.also saw an...
The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches - but to more people admitting to them. The spokesperson said: "More people are stepping forward as they...