“Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour” Matthew 25:13 For only the second time in my short 15+ year internet life, I have found myself to be the target of a hacker, and dealing with a serious personal security breach. I post the details here, in the hopes it helps others [...]
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Facebook. HACKED!
by Jack Santos | December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t
by Jack Santos | November 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I cancelled my home PC backup contract. It was with a leading online (cloud based) provider of backup services. It’s not that I wasn’t happy with them. In fact, when I signed up 4 years ago, it was one of the things that made me realize cloud services were players – not only for [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization management Managment Outsourcing security Tags: Cloud, data management, Outsourcing, security
Data Breaches and Clothes Closets
by Jack Santos | September 16, 2010 | Comments Off
A friend of a friend of a friend passed along a 500 Mb thumb drive the other day. It came through a series of hands (starting with a cleaning lady), and was looking for someone that might understand the implications of this find. As it turns out, it’s a data breach. Or what we in [...]
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Category: Information Management security Tags: data management, privacy, security
