There will be 350 million employees using their own devices for work by 2014, a new report from Juniper Research says, compared to the current number of 150 million users.
Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea, Yemen, Somalia.
Remember that Barry McGuire 1965 song, “Eve of Destruction?” “The eastern world, it is exploding / Violence flarin', bullets loadin' / You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?”
A bill promoting voluntary information-sharing between security departments in various critical infrastructure industries is being debated in the Senate.
We read it in the headlines all too often: “Facebook, PayPal Users Urged to Check Logins After Hacking,” “Sony Hacked Again; 25 Million Entertainment Users’ Data at Risk,” “Zappos Says Hacker May Have Accessed Info on 24 Million Customers,” and most recently, “MasterCard, Visa Warn of Credit Card Data Theft.”
New guidelines, expected today from an E.U. panel on privacy, will give strong recommendations to European governments on whether to and how to adopt cloud computing.
With the advent of social media, personal and professional identities are beginning to blend together. I am linked, I tweet and am face booked. I have my own space; I can Skype and even FaceTime. By accessing all these sites, my professional and personal lives seem to be getting in the way of each other. In fact, my personal and professional identities are melding.