Data-theft trojans and the changing face of the Web

UC Berkeley tightens personal data security with data-masking tool; Snow Leopard Bug is a Doozy, How Did Apple Miss It? Security Strategies Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Akamai Akamai and Cisco on App Delivery Akamai and Cisco have teamed up to offer a complete set of application delivery solutions addressing delivery over the Internet and private WAN. These solutions can help your organization manage application delivery challenges and provide you with optimal application performance, scalability, availability, and security. Learn more. Spotlight Story Data-theft trojans and the changing face of the Web In 2004, Russell Beale of the University of Birmingham penned an interesting article discussing the social changes taking place on the Web. In his summation, Professor Beale noted, "We have split the Web atom – previously atomic units were Web pages – once you'd got them you could analyze them into text and graphics, but you generally dealt in whole pages. Now our atomic unit is much smaller – we can construct things out of fragments of pages. And this makes a second difference – consumers can look only at what they want." Read full story Related News: UC Berkeley tightens personal data security with data-masking tool To better safeguard the personal data of its students, the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has adopted a specialized data-masking technique in its application development work that effectively can hide data in plain sight by mixing it up. Snow Leopard Bug is a Doozy, How Did Apple Miss It? Reports of a major bug in Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X that debuted in August, are creating dismay among Mac users in Apple's support forums, on Twitter, and elsewhere across the Web. Secrecy vs. privacy When Bob Blakley talks, I listen. Blakley is vice president and research director for the Burton Group's Identity and Privacy Strategies. Before that he was chief scientist for security and privacy at IBM. He rarely speaks about identity and security issues without weighing all of the possibilities and coming to a reasoned conclusion. So when he says that an analyst from another organization is "dead wrong" you can bet he'll back it up with an elegant argument. Most disturbing tech stories of the week: shooting an iPhone, squeezing Nortel dry Disturbing tech stories this week include a man allegedly threatening to shoot his iPhone at an Apple Store and a former Nortel exec seeking to squeeze millions from the bankrupt company. Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups The loss of personal data that Sidekick users in the U.S. have suffered is a shame, but it also shows how important data stored on mobile phones has become. 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