By Thu Pham One of the main concerns with cloud computing is security – when it comes to national industry security compliance standards such as PCI DSS or HIPAA, additional precautions must be taken in order to protect confidential data during transmission. While PCI compliance calls for very specific requirements to protect customer cardholder data, [...]
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Alert Logic launches CAPP
09/16/2011
Alert Logic announced this week their Cloud Acceleration Partner Program (CAPP), enabling technology partners to deliver their security solutions as fully-managed security services. Participating in Alert Logic’s CAPP allows leading security solution providers to offer their products as cloud-based Security-as-a-Service solutions. “We expect CAPP to accelerate the move to the cloud by addressing lingering security [...]
Google- China is to blame, again
06/03/2011
Google claims resent attacks targeting the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. & South Korean officials, Chinese political activists, military personnel, and journalists came from a province in China notorious for cyber attacks. Google announced that Chinese hackers used phishing (pretending to be a legitimate site to gain account access) to steal the passwords of hundreds [...]
Android security revisited
05/28/2011
Several mobile news sources continued to report this week that Google’s Android OS is still vulnerable to attacks that would allow hackers to access Android calendars, contacts, and other personal data stored on Google’s cloud. This news comes on the heels of a Rice University group study, that found Android security issues affecting Twitter, Facebook, [...]
Senate Questions Mobile Privacy
05/21/2011
Via Wired & Bloomberg: Representatives from Apple, Google, Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission testified on Thursday before the Senate’s Consumer Protection Subcommittee concerning location privacy issues on smart phones. The hearing follows questioning “of both Apple and Google last week before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law concerning recent public [...]
Apple, Google Collect User Data
04/21/2011
Via WSJ & Bloomberg “Apple Inc.’s iPhones and Google Inc.’s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data. Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their race [...]
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