Have we finally grown tired of Facebook? According to Inside Facebook, more than five per cent of U.S. users abandoned Facebook in May -- that's about six million people who have stopped "liking" the world's largest social network. Six million people jumping ship sounds like a lot, but when you consider that Facebook is on track to hit 700 million users any day now, it's not such a big deal.
Brennon Slattery | 15 Jun | Read more
Eddie Schwartz, former chief security officer at Netwitness Corp., a company recently acquired by EMC, has been named chief security officer of the storage vendor's RSA security division.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 10 Jun | Read more
Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay to compensate potential victims of identity theft for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday.
Grant Gross | 20 Oct | Read more
A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers has another chance at avoiding extradition after a court ruling Friday.
Jeremy Kirk | 27 Jan | Read more
Starting early next year, air travelers will have to provide their birth date and gender, as well as their full names to the airline when making flight reservations.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 27 Oct | Read more
A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into an e-mail account of U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, according to court records.
Grant Gross & Robert McMillan | 09 Oct | Read more
David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch.
Robert McMillan | 09 Oct | Read more
A US House subcommittee is charging that a US$500 million IT project intended to "connect the dots" on terrorists and help prevent another 9/11 is a failure; it can't even handle basic Boolean search terms, such as "and, or and not."
Patrick Thibodeau | 28 Aug | Read more
The next time you relinquish your personal identity to simply enter a venue or purchase something, spare a thought for how the information might be stored, transmitted and used in the future. Such an overload of identity information may lead to a dramatic escalation in fraud, claims one legal eye.
Rodney Gedda | 20 May | Read more
International experts in Wellington for a conference on identity last week expressed admiration for the New Zealand government's igovt identity information management scheme and the policy behind it.
Stephen Bell | 07 May | Read more
A prominent Sydney club has deployed a network firewall solution to protect its gaming rewards system, which can potentially hold $50 million.
Darren Pauli | 23 Apr | Read more
BMC Australia has won a deal with explosives, chemicals and paint making giant Orica to provide automated employee identity management to accelerate the productivity of new employees.
Sandra Rossi | 06 Feb | Read more
A unique demonstration showed user-centric identity software from major vendors, start-ups, one-woman projects and open source hackers all working in concert to replace passwords with validated identity-card access to Web-based resources.
John Fontana | 02 Jul | Read more
Microsoft has thrown its weight behind OpenID, an emerging Web authentication standard.
Robert McMillan | 07 Feb | Read more
An Australian organization has developed an algorithm designed solely to detect identity fraud, or people who change their given names to commit fraud following a study into credit risk.
Michael Crawford | 06 Jul | Read more
Microsoft, EMC and Cisco Systems on Tuesday jointly unveiled plans to build a system for sharing sensitive government data called the Secure Information Sharing Architecture (SISA) that will let various government agencies and their vendors securely share sensitive information.
Brian Fonseca | 11 Jul | Read more
Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites.
Jeremy Kirk | 10 Jan | Read more
The government has defended security measures for its £5.6 billion ID cards scheme in the wake of the data loss crisis at HM Revenue and Customs.
Tash Shifrin | 23 Nov | Read more
IBM is aggressively expanding its security portfolio in hopes of becoming the de facto source of advice and technology for businesses looking to adopt high-level IT governance and risk management strategies -- a transformation among customers that officials at Big Blue cite as both ongoing and inevitable.
Matt Hines | 08 Jan | Read more
Victorian head-quartered software company, eB2Bcom, has just scored another two identity and access management deals in the Asean market.
Sandra Rossi | 21 Aug | Read more