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John Fontana's blog traverses the evolving digital identity landscape and its intersection with the cloud, compliance, audit, privacy, mobile computing, API integration and security.
John Fontana
John Fontana is a journalist focusing in identity, privacy and security issues. Currently, he is the Identity Evangelist for cloud identity security vendor Ping Identity, where he blogs about relevant issues related to digital identity.
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IEEE admits password leak, says problem fixed
Prestigious engineering, science organization says it is working to inform those affected.
IEEE mum on publicly exposing 100K plain text names, passwords
Stupid mistake: public access to logs, and more troublesome, keeping passwords in plain text, says teaching assistant who found data on IEEE FTP server.
NSTIC launches pilot programs with $9 million in grants
Five organizations begin first efforts to turn identity initiative into reality.
Audio samples used to secure NFC authentication
Real-time audio snippets prove NFC-based devices are near each other to cut risk of "mafia fraud" relay attacks.
Twitter hands over protester's private data
Twitter wanted no part of a fight with the New York State Supreme Court.
New House bill targets mobile device tracking software
Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey's proposed Mobile Device Privacy Act is aimed at protecting device users.
Klout quietly transforming into platform via APIs, OAuth
Klout is quietly piloting with developers its new OAuth API and KloutPass authentication verification as first steps in a larger strategy to become a platform and offer its data through other apps.
Twitter ordered to release user's private data
New York judge says produce data by Friday or face fines and contempt of court charges.
Study shows hackers more focused on passwords than those who create them
Survey shows depth to which Internet users are ignoring core precautions, using weak passwords, and storing sensitive data in email.