Will Sgrouples end social networking’s attack on privacy?
Nearly 15 years after founding SuperGroups.com, Mark Weinstein is back with Sgrouples and says it’s time privacy becomes the hallmark of social networking.
Identity Matters
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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Breach clean-up cost LinkedIn nearly $1 million, another $2-3 million in upgrades
LinkedIn executives reveal on quarterly earnings call just what the June theft of 6.5 million passwords cost the company in forensic work and on-going security updates.
Is two-factor authentication Dropbox’s security answer?
After admitting that its service was breached, Dropbox says it will offer two-factor authentication. Is it the answer to the issue or the start of a new round of questions?
Group builds Twitter path to senators in Cybersecurity Act fight
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is using an interactive Twitter tool that has opponents to the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 flooding the Twitter accounts of U.S. senators.
Consumers care most about SSN, less about college grades in privacy survey
A privacy survey ranks the Top 100 data points in terms of what information end-users care the most about keeping private. Also, Baby Boomers emerge as most privacy-sensitive group.
Group airs dirty laundry as protocol nears completion
OAuth 2.0 should be finalized this week, but the action is taking place in blogs and comment sections online as three years of work and frustration boil over.
Two feet beat one password every time, researchers believe
Researchers are focusing on the feet to develop a new biometric system that proves identity and can help detect certain diseases.
First NSTIC steering group meeting set for Aug. 15-16
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is set to launch its steering group and ready to hand out $10 million for pilot programs.
Key mobile, API security spec set for IETF approval next week
OAuth 2.0 is already catching fire as the spec to secure native mobile apps and API calls.
Foundation gathering, open sourcing ID technology
The OpenID Foundation introduces a message bus with identity capabilities as part of plan to create venue where ID technology can be vetted, open sourced and made available to enterprises, Web site operators and others.