According to Gartner’s June 23 press release discussing their phishing report: Approximately 77 percent of online Americans shopped online in the 12 months ended in May 2005, according to Gartner. An estimated 73 percent of respondents regularly logged on to banking accounts and 63 percent paid bills online. Amazing stats, eh? Much higher than I’d [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Privacy'
Would Dr. Atkins Delete Cookies?
July 5th, 2005 No Comments
I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere, but Jupiter did a follow-up survey to their report on cookie deletion. The goal was to give some context around the profile of the cookie deleter. While the summary from the report is that the longer you’ve been on-line, the more likely you are to delete cookies, there’s a [...]
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The Business Case for Privacy
May 12th, 2005 No Comments
Forrester released the results of a survey in an report called What’s On Web Analytics Users’ Minds? The report mirrors a lot of the issues we see here at Yahoo! (instrumentation concerns, multiple sources of “truth”, no silver bullet for counting users) but there’s one sentence that jumped out at me – this was regarding [...]
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Getting Over It
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
Last week I got a letter from a health clinic that I used maybe five years ago. The letter said some of their PCs were stolen out of their office, and on those PCs were the electronic records of their patients, including mine. They also sent a photocopy of the police report, for reasons I [...]
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Privacy in Death
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
So a court has ordered Y! to turn over all materials belonging to a marine killed in Iraq after his family sued to get access. Y! News has the AP story. To its credit (in my opinion), in order to comply wirh the court ruling, Y! turned over a CD of information (and will produce [...]
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Breaking WEP in 3 minutes
April 11th, 2005 No Comments
It’s not news in the security community, but demonstrating that WEP is so insecure that even the FBI can break it: TomsNetworking discusses a demonstration where the Feds broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes. WPA is much better, but still a target. The solution? VPN, of course. And since your wireless [...]
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