Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy?

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	Facebook vs. LinkedIn: Which has the better privacy? Privacy advocates' criticism over recent moves by Facebook and Google Buzz begs the question: Is privacy possible in a social network? And, if so, which social-network service does it the best? To answer this question, this month I donned my privacy goggles and pored over the two social networks that my professional peers seem to use the most: Facebook and LinkedIn. I also asked all my Facebook friends and LinkedIn connections to tell me which they thought did privacy better. (I didn't look at Buzz because I admittedly don't know anyone using it.) What did I find out? Read More ARTICLE: Sophos FREE Threat Detection Test from Sophos Scan your network for viruses, spyware, and other threats missed by your existing AV software. Is your AV catching everything? Click to continue In this Issue Hand-helds fail at the NYSE today: Report Pentagon bringing advanced math concepts to battlefield tactics Huawei moves to convince India on network security issues FedRAMP Seeks to Unify Cloud Computing Security Standards Across the U.S. Government 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world Co-op Bank offers anti-fraud technology service U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware Agencies struggle to meet Obama's Open Government Directive Security truths get lost in the cloud WHITE PAPER: Sophos Best practices for implementing Windows 7 If you're planning to roll out Windows 7, now is the time to review your endpoint and data protection strategies to make sure that you're taking full advantage of the new security features as well as enhancing your overall security for enterprise deployments. Read Now. Hand-helds fail at the NYSE today: Report The Wall Street Journal reported that about 30% of hand-held devices used by brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange randomly failed this morning. Read More Pentagon bringing advanced math concepts to battlefield tactics Military scientists at the  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over a year ago put out a call to get answers to what it called the world's 23 toughest math questions with the idea that major math breakthroughs could greatly enhance the country's security.  While it is unclear what  DARPA would do with the answers to those questions, the Pentagon today added to the search for mathematical... Read More Huawei moves to convince India on network security issues Huawei Technologies is taking measures to convince the Indian government that there are no security issues arising from Indian telecommunications operators buying its equipment, it said Wednesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! FedRAMP Seeks to Unify Cloud Computing Security Standards Across the U.S. Government Yesterday, I hosted a panel at the Cloud Computing summit focused on cloud security for the federal government. The panel was made up of some smart folks: Alex Hart from VMware, Bob Wambach from EMC and one of the primary authors of the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines, Chris Hoff from Cisco. Read More 10 hot energy projects that could electrify the world There are thousands of projects underway to change the way the U.S. and the world produces and uses energy. Start-ups are looking to harness the world's ocean waves and build advanced fuel cell that produce data center-class electricity. Read More Co-op Bank offers anti-fraud technology service The Co-operative Bank has partnered with identity management firm GB Group to supply anti-fraud technologies to local authorities and other public sector organisations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here! U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says. Read More Agencies struggle to meet Obama's Open Government Directive An audit of efforts by government agencies to meet the Obama administration's Open Government Directive found some agencies have created strong plans while others are having problems. Read More Security truths get lost in the cloud There was an awkward moment during the keynote address for The Experts Conference last week. Conrad Bayer, Microsoft's general manager for identity and access, was addressing the delegates of the Directory and Identity track and, while talking about enterprise and organization movement to cloud computing, put up a slide that compared the migration to the cloud of small, midsize and large organizations. Read More
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