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About John Fontana
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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. Prior to Ping, John spent 15 years as a senior reporter for a variety of publications, including Communications Week, Internet Week and Network World, where he focused on enterprise topics including collaboration, directories, network infrastructure, databases, open source, ERP and security. He covered IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Google among other enterprise vendors. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, CNN, CIO and Mashable.
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Cloud provisioning spec step closer to IETF working group
A proposal to create a new standard for provisioning users to cloud services is making its way along the standards track and is soon to be the focus for a new IETF working group.
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Microsoft unveils AD Azure strategy, ID management reset
The software giant begins talking publicly about Windows Azure Active Directory service and its strategy to use it as the foundation for its Identity Management as a Service strategy.
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Billions of API calls traversing Web, redefining "software"
APIs are quickly becoming the application glue for the Web with billions of calls per day making some companies billions of dollars per year, according to one keynote speaker at the annual Glue...
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Your passwords don't suck, it's your policies
A developer has created a password analysis tool that examines patterns to determine password strength and concludes password-creation policies are the real enemy of solid passwords.
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Anatomy of hack on Google leads Plaxo to up API security
A malicious attack aimed at Google but routed through Plaxo highlights the growing importance of API security using the forthcoming OAuth 2.0 protocol, which protects the user's credential...
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Google, Facebook, MySpace; privacy rule breakers or trend makers?
The major social networking sites have all been fined for improper use of private data; is that a trend that should be ringing alarm bells or a sideshow for the paranoid and uninitiated?
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Phishers hooking Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo passwords
Phishers are actively trolling the Internet trying to trick users into giving up their OpenID-based log-in credentials to popular social networking sites.
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Privacy labels aim to control prying eyes, personal data
A pair of entrepreneurs thinks labels on websites that outline information sharing rules could go a long way toward protecting user privacy on the Internet and improving business relationships...
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SNOPA legislation would bar employers from social network passwords
The proposed Social Networking Online Protection Act is designed to shield the social networking passwords of job applicants and students.
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Group expects ruling on Google report in a few weeks
It will be at least a few weeks before the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) finds out if the FCC wants to provide an unedited copy of its report in the Google's Street View investigation.
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ID thieves discovering defenseless target - the dead
Nearly 800,000 deceased Americans each year have their identity stolen by thieves looking for financial or other gain, according to a new study.
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EPIC files FOIA request seeking full FCC report on Google
The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants to see the full, unedited report the Federal Communications Commission published on its investigation of Google and possible violations of wiretap laws.
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On 1-year anniversary, organized NSTIC looking for fast track
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is getting its house in order a year after its inception. The issue now is if it can gain speed and rally a critical mass of public and...
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Gov.-led ID plan picks finalists for $10 million grant program
Finalists are picked for the $10 million pilot program being run by the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).
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Researchers build invisible passwords with vibrations, sounds, flashing lights
A trio of researchers is experimenting with vibrations, sounds and flashing lights as the basis for futuristic, secure passwords.
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W3C moves Do Not Track to showdown phase
The World Wide Web Consortium opens a three-day meeting to define the parameters of its Web Tracking Protection specification. It is being closely watched by the digital advertising industry and...
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Group aims to vet worth of ID standards for mobile, software, other cloud services
The Identity in the Cloud technical committee at OASIS is calling on the public to help it vet identity standards for a myriad of cloud use cases from mobile to digital signatures.
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Google tweaks user password changes in search engine
Google has tweaked its search engine to ensure that when users change their passwords they are signed out everywhere.
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Enterprises tapping identity technology as one way to recover after data breach
To recover from a data breach, companies are turning to a number of procedures and technologies including re-education, identity and access management, and expanded use of encryption, a Ponemon...
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Laws of Identity: A conversation with Kim Cameron, Part 2
Industry luminary Kim Cameron, now a distinguished engineer with Microsoft working on identity, wrote the Seven Laws of Identity in 2005. He discusses with ZDNet why these seven "scientific" laws...
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