Use of Cloud Most Common Among Small Firms, ABA Survey Says. Lawyers’ use of web-based software and services has grown only slightly in recent years, a new survey indicates. Growth in use of the cloud is greatest among solos and small firms and lawyers in these firms are more likely than their larger-firm counterparts to use cloud-based applications. These are among the findings of the recently published 2012 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Volume II of the report covers law office technology and includes use of web-based software and services among the topics it covers. (I previously posted about the survey’s findings on social media and on e-discovery.)
This year, 21% of lawyers reported having used cloud-based software (also referred to as Software as a Service, or SaaS). That is an increase from last year’s 16%, but little difference from the 20% in 2010 who said they’d used the cloud. Of lawyers who have used the cloud, the application they are most likely to have used is Google Docs, with 46.2% saying they had used it. The future of Singapore's Geekdom.
News 27, Aug 2012 Exactly one month later, the geeks responded. According to different estimates, GeekcampSG 2012, which happened on August 18, saw between 400 to 500 attendees, and is Singapore’s largest GeekcampSG yet. Covering topics from security to continuous integration to graph databases, this year’s GeekcampSG saw various community leaders, including Michael Cheng, Calvin Cheng, and Subh come in and give talks on topics that they were passionate about. Not only that, this year’s GeekcampSG was the first time a group of younglings (a term coined to describe younger geeks) were given a chance to present at the conference on things that they were playing around with, including Android development and development on Ruby on Rails.
With around 20 percent of the attendees being students, the future sure looks bright for Singapore’s tech ecosystem. So, what did this year’s GeekcampSG have to show about the future of the tech ecosystem in Singapore? German consumer group sets Facebook privacy ultimatum. 12 min ago | ChinaTechNews.com Alibaba Throws Money At Internet Privacy Hu Xiaoming, Alibaba's vice president for small- and micro-financial group and chief risk officer, announced in Beijing that the company will invest CNY40 million to establish a security fund. Trending on the Topix Network 12 min ago | ComputerWorld Dropbox angling for larger corporate share Dropbox on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its data storage and sharing service for business claimed to provide IT administrators with more control by separating work and personal files. 3 hrs ago | ComputerWorld Data breaches nail more U.S. More U.S. 3 hrs ago | MediaPost Users Trust Online Retailers With Data Privacy, Less Confidence With Advertisers, Marketers Online auctions, banking, social networks, and competitions are taking the brunt of the burden when it comes to data protection. 3 hrs ago | JD Supra Balancing the data privacy debate: The benefits of big (and little) data 7 hrs ago | ComputerWorld 7 hrs ago | Mashable.
$20 Million Facebook Privacy Settlement Rejected by Judge. Online Voting and Hostile Deployment Environments | Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets. Elections Canada recently stated that sometime after 2013 it intends to trial online voting, a system that lets citizens vote over the Internet. Fortunately, they are just committing to a trial but if the trial is conducted improperly then Elections Canada, politicians, and the Canadian public may mistakenly come to think that online voting is secure. Worse, they might see it as a valid ‘complement’ to traditional voting processes. If Canadians en masse vote using the Internet, with all of its existing and persistent infrastructural and security deficiencies, then the election is simply begging to be stolen. While quick comparisons between the United States’ electronic voting system and the to-be-trialed Canadian online voting system would be easy to make, I want to focus exclusively on the Canadian proposition.
Why Online Voting? In the aftermath of the election, Elections Canada prepared a report about the election and presented it to the Speaker. Hostile Deployment Environments. Shoppers may get right to access data held by retail giants - UK. A rare look inside Facebook’s Oregon data center [photos, video] — Cleantech News and Analysis. Researchers claim that Adobe failed to patch Reader vulnerabilities last week. August 20, 2012 Adobe releases patches for critical vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave and Photoshop Adobe missed dozens of vulnerabilities in Reader on last week's Patch Tuesday, according to Google engineers who reported the flaws. Sixteen vulnerabilities still affected the Windows and Mac OS X versions, while 31 critical and ‘trivially exploitable' bugs were found in the Linux application.
Of the 60 crashes affecting Adobe Reader for Linux, nine were potentially exploitable for remote code execution, according to Google security engineers Mateusz Jurczyk and GynDream Coldwind. Adobe fixed 20 of the 50 vulnerabilities affecting Reader, including all five critical and high severity holes. Following the Patch Tuesday release, the researchers published details of the unpatched vulnerabilities to help users mitigate security risks, and have been in contact with Adobe's product security response team to help develop patches. Facebook’s Stock Dive Isn’t Over. Facebook’s stock hit a new low last week -- and it could be poised to plunge even further. The spiral that started last Thursday ended the next day at $19.05 a share, just shy of half of Facebook’s initial public offering price in May. While Facebook’s underlying business remains strong, there are a number of factors that argue for a lower price. Inside the Latest Slide The latest slump in Facebook stock began on the day early investors could start selling a total of 271 million shares.
While it was unlikely the investors, which includd Accel Partners and Goldman Sachs, would dump all their shares immediately, the mere fact it was possible seemed to panic other investors. Why Facebook Stock Is Heading South The big question now is whether Facebook stock could go still lower? How Much Is Facebook Worth? The stock-price pummeling has had a huge impact on Facebook’s valuation, which was a jaw-dropping $104 billion when the company made its stock market debut. Boosting Investor Trust. Clarinette02 : Did I mentioned we are watching... Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners - Security - Privacy. As more license plate data is collected by law enforcement, debate grows over how such data should be stored or shared. 11 Security Sights Seen Only At Black Hat (click image for larger view and for slideshow) License plate scanners are being deployed by an increasing number of government and law enforcement agencies, but at what privacy cost?
That's the question posed by a recently published American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report on automated license plate readers (ALPRs). But what are the security and privacy implications of the growing use of such scanners? [ License-plate readers in action: NYC, Microsoft Team On Huge Surveillance System. ] According to the ACLU, such systems can scan up to 3,000 plates per minute. With increased adoption has also come decreased prices. According to EPIC, the practice of scanning license plates originated in the United Kingdom, where it's known as automatic number plate recognition (ANPR). More Insights. Life under digits. Update 20/03/2012 This could be titled ‘when reality catch up with science fiction’. How to beleive that your refrigeratoris telling on you to the CIA and your flat screen TV is watching you?
Well, it’s all true, read by yourself. - ‘CIA: We’ll spy on you through your refrigerator‘ - ‘Is Your New HDTV Watching You? - ‘Who is snooping into your address book? - ‘Special Report: Chinese firm helps Iran spy on citizens‘ Do you beleive these technologies are only used in Iran and China? - ‘Investigators question what Google knew, and when‘ - ‘Google asked to clarify privacy policy issues in ongoing EU laws compliance investigation‘ - ‘A clean-sweep of social media permissions‘ - ‘Lessons from Rutgers on privacy and hate speech‘ , the student who set up a spycam to catch roommate Tyler Clementi in a same-sex romantic moment, and tweeted about it.
When security around collected sensitive data is not assured, what do you think about biometrics data collected by governments? - Which consent? Like this: Webcast on Data Privacy in the Global Era. EFF Teaches You How to Protect Your Site Against DDOS Attacks (Video) Whether you’re a famous (or somewhat famous) individual, the owner of a small company, or the one of an enterprise, your website can easily become the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The ones who launch such attacks usually do it because they hate what you preach or they want to cause damage to your company’s systems to lend a hand to the competition. There are firms that can help you mitigate such threats, but their solutions are not always affordable (in most cases they’re not). This is why the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a simple guide called “Keeping your site alive.”
The guide includes tips on how to choose a webhost, how to perform backups and set up website mirrors. “Denial of service attacks have been used by governments to silence online criticism as well as by activists protesting companies and organizations they don't like,” EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York explained. FTC imposes record $22.5 million fine on Google in for violation of prior privacy promises. Google recruiting data privacy 'ninja' By Brandon Bailey bbailey@mercurynews.com Posted: 08/23/2012 05:02:45 PM PDT0 Comments|Updated: about a year ago Click photo to enlarge After a series of recent privacy gaffes, Google is soliciting software... (Lauren Purkey/Staff file) After a series of recent privacy gaffes, Google (GOOG) is soliciting software experts to apply for a special team of "back-end ninjas" who are focused on spotting and resolving user privacy issues in the company's products.
Google won't say if its "Privacy Red Team" is new, but several outside observers said they hadn't heard of it before the job listing surfaced on the company's website this week. Many companies and even government agencies use so-called "red teams" of security experts who try to spot holes and weaknesses before outsiders can exploit them. "If this is a new emphasis on privacy, that would be a good thing," added John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group that has criticized Google for its privacy practices. Windows 8 privacy complaint misses the. Windows 8 contains a significant privacy flaw, insecurely telling Microsoft about every program you run, according to student and developer Nadim Kobeissi whose assessment fails to grasp some key technical details.
Kobeissi, who has made a name for himself with his controversial browser-based secure chat service Cryptocat, says that the flaw lies in Windows 8's SmartScreen feature. The first time you run any downloaded executable on Windows 8, the operating system sends information about that application to Microsoft. Kebeissi says that this information is sufficient to identify the application you're running, and that Microsoft could combine this with IP address information to know who was running what. Further, Kobeissi says that the server Microsoft sends the information to supports the SSLv2 protocol, which is known to be insecure. Microsoft's SmartScreen service was first introduced in Internet Explorer 8, as an extension of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter. Why George Orwell is as relevant today as ever | Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Why Orwell Matters is the title of a book published some years ago by my much-lamented if misguided friend Christopher Hitchens.
Whether Orwell matters, he clearly still fascinates, stimulates and enrages. How is it that a writer who died in 1950, at only 46, should be one of the most controversial figures of our own time? During the war he spent some years working for the BBC ("wasting my own time and the public's money", as he characteristically said), and the George Orwell Memorial Trust has proposed that a statue of perhaps the most famous employee in the corporation's history should be put up outside its new HQ. When Joan Bakewell brought this up with Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general, she was apparently told no, the proposal was "far too leftwing". If Thompson thinks Orwell automatically counts as "leftwing" then he hasn't been following the story closely. Even to those of us who reckon ourselves Orwellians he remains a mystery.
Referencias a Sismo de magnitud 5,8 sacude Japón en Bitacoras. Google Now Is Watching You. I've been getting friendly with the newest features of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, including a feature called Google Now. On the new start slider, when bringing the phone to life, you can slide to the right to go to the phone itself. If you go to the left, you can activate the camera immediately. If you go to the top, you get Google Now, probably the niftiest or the creepiest feature ever developed. It takes what you've been doing on the desktop and makes assumptions, which are then passed to the phone. It figured out where I live right away, based on various trips I may have planned on Google Maps.
It always displays the weather, but that's easy. I'm told that if I have an appointment scheduled in my Google calendar, Google Now will calculate the distance and, if I'm cutting it close on time, pop up to warn me that I should leave. I do not know what this system is capable of, but I like what I see so far, even though it may be potentially onerous. Skype will record months data, hand over to law enforcement agencies if requested. Embarrassing Rich Kids of Instagram. The Tumblr called Rich Kids Of Instagram should have died a month ago when it went mainstream. Articles cropped up everywhere pointing out how it somewhat embarrasses rich kids who apparently like to brag about their personal unearned incomes. It all came to a head this week when Michael Dell's kids shared their family's travel plans on Instagram, posing a huge threat to their security.
The photo inevitably showed up on Rich Kids Of Instagram and all hell broke loose. The social media accounts of Dell's kids have since been deactivated, preventing them from acting like the idiots that other young adults addicted to social media are. With multi-billionaires, family safety is an extreme issue. Mexico and many South American countries are plagued with kidnappings. The sad thing is that if anything happens to any of the teens and 20-somethings on Rich Kids Of Instagram, they will get zero public sympathy, no thanks to their arrogant attitudes during a serious economic downturn. Les plans de l’Elysée dérobés dans une voiture. WeKnowYourHouse.com Highlights the Dangers of Location Check-ins. WeKnowYourHouse is the latest "social networking privacy experiment" designed to show Internet users just how easy it is for someone to find your house by what you tweet.
The site is tremendously creepy, but a good object lesson in how much information gets shared online. WeKnowYourHouse.com uses the Twitter Search API to look for tweets containing the word "home" and are posted by users who have location turned on, according to the site's "How It Works" page. The Tweet is then displayed on the site along with a Street View image of the user's location.Only the past hour of Twitter data is displayed, and after that all images and Tweets are deleted to protect user privacy, according the site. Twitter initially suspended the @WeKnowYourHouse account earlier this week after several outlets, including CNET and Sophos, wrote about the site. Without the Twitter account, the site couldn't use the search API to pull the relevant tweets. Spy games turn real as eavesdropping technology spreads.