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+ - Virtual Padlocks Catching On To Keep The Feds Out of Your Cloud Data->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "With a growing number of court and federal government requests to access personal customer data from cloud providers, a cottage industry has sprung up to offer encryption for online cloud service that hands the keys to the data owners. For example, last year, Google received 21,389 government requests for information affecting 33,634 user accounts. Sixty-six percent of the time, Google said it provided at least some data in response. The new security services promise to keep the government, hackers and the SaaS vendors themselves out of your business. Among the vendors offering or considering offering the services are SafeNet, Boxcryptor, Sookasa, TrustedSafe, PKWare and CipherCloud. Apart from downloading freeware, such as TruCrypt, and encrypting every folder or file before it's uploaded to the cloud, the new automated applications handle the job of cloud storage security more seamlessly."
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+ - Researchers are developing ad hoc networks for car-to-car data exchange->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "Researchers are developing machine-to-machine (M2M) communication technology that allows cars to exchange data with each other, enabling vehicles to know what the cars all around them are doing, and perhaps, where they're going. Intel is working with National Taiwan University on M2M connectivity, an idea came from caravanning — an available, but-not-yet-deployed technology that uses direct line of site infrared (IR) and a range finder in order to automatically adjust the speed of cars so they can travel at a measured distance from each other. In other words, they're electronically tethered to one another. Now, imagine a group of cars traveling down the road together as an ad hoc network, each one aware of the location, any sudden actions or even the travel route of other vehicles as uploaded to the cloud from a GPS device. "We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, 'Hey, can I cut into your lane?' Then the other car would let you in," said Jennifer Healey, a research scientist with Intel."
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+ - Data Breach at Washington Court Spills 160k SSNs->

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Attackers using a vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion app server were able to compromise servers belonging to the Washington State court system sometime in the last few months and walked off with data belonging to as many as a million residents of the state. The attackers had access to 160,000 Social Security numbers and the driver’s license numbers and names of a million people."
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+ - Why Your New Car's Technology is Four Years Old->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "While you can buy a 1TB hard drive for your computer for less than $100, Ford today offers 10GB. Don't expect much more anytime soon. Apart from the obvious — a car's development process can be four years long — the automotive industry also tends to be behind the tech curve because of a lack of equipment standardization. And, while it's possible for the industry to build modular infotainment systems that could be upgraded over the life of the car, there are no plans to do so. Instead, car companies intend to offer software upgradable vehicles through 4G connectivity and data storage and entertainment streaming through the cloud, which means they have to worry less about onboard hardware reliability and standarization."
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+ - By 2017, Most Companies Will Require You To Bring Your Own Mobile Device->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "One radical change the consumerization of IT trend is expected to spawn is that by 2017, half of all employers will require workers to supply their own devices for work purposes, according to a new Gartner study. Enterprises that offer only corporately-owned smartphones or stipends to buy your own will soon become the exception to the rule in the next few years. As enterprise BYOD programs proliferate, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016 and let them use their own, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner. At the same time, security remains the top BYOD concern. "What happens if you buy a device for an employee and they leave the job a month later? How are you going to settle up? Better to keep it simple. The employee owns the device, and the company helps to cover usage costs," said David Willis, a distinguished analyst at Gartner."
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+ - Smart Gun Company Hopes to Begin Production this Summer->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "The Safe Gun Technology company is hoping it can begin production on its version of a smart gun within the next two months. His company has been working on it for 10 years, and has relied solely on private investments to date. The Columbus, Ga.-based company uses relatively simple fingerprint recognition through a flat, infrared reader positioned on the weapon's grip. The biometrics reader enables three other physical mechanisms that control the trigger, the firing pin and the gun hammer. The controller chip can save from 15,000 to 20,000 fingerprints, so if a large military unit wanted to program thousands of finger prints into a single weapon, it would be possible, Or a single gun owner could temporarily program a family member or friend's finger print into the gun to go target shooting or hunting and then remove it upon returning home. The largest problem facing smart gun technology start-ups like Smart Gun Technology, is a lack of funding. While the technology has been around for more than a decade, other than small private investors, none are receiving significant venture funding for their products."
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+ - Sandy Turns Companies Into Tree Huggers->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "After Hurricane Sandy flipped the switch on a good portion of the Eastern seaboard, many companies began unplugging from the electrical grid and plugging into natural gas lines and fuel cells, according to IDC's Datacenter Trends unit. Other companies have been deploying solar panels or using hydroelectric power and still others are finding geographical location matters as much as the energy source when going green to save money or increase resilience. For example, T5 Data Centers, a national data center owner and operator, says that just by choosing a better geographic location and indirect evaporative cooling units, it can drop the PUE rating of its buildings from 2 to 1.2 to 1.5. The Bullitt Foundation recently constructed a "living building" in Seattle that gathers rainwater for its faucets, solar power for its electricity and has automated windows that help control its indoor climate."
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Comment: 24/7 Surveillance a Completely Reasonable Reaction (Score 1) 508

by Lucas123 (#43558397) Attached to: NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs
We must consider the facts. Since Sept. 11, 2001, SEVENTEEN Americans have been killed in domestic terrorist attacks, according to the Global Terrorism Database. If that's not reason enough to set up a nationwide network of surveillance cameras recording our every public act, I don't know what would be. We must protect the 0.0000056 percenters of our population from terrorism. http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?chart=country&casualties_type=f&casualties_max=&start_yearonly=1970&end_yearonly=2010&dtp2=all&country=217

Comment: With one exception (Score 1) 508

by Lucas123 (#43558179) Attached to: NYC Police Comm'r: Privacy Is 'Off the Table' After Boston Bombs
The public video taping police abusing their authority. For that you'll arrest citizens. While a no brainer that we can video tape police in public, it had to go to the Supreme Court yet again to be upheld yet again. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-prohibit-taping-of-police-20121126,0,686331.story

+ - CISPA is already dead in the Senate->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "But though CISPA resoundingly passed the House of Representatives April 18, "it is extremely unlikely for the Senate" to vote on the bill," the ACLU's Michelle Richardson said.

A Senate committee aide, who requested to not be named, told the Daily Dot that "there is no possible plan to bring up CISPA," in the Senate. The aide cited the fact that the Senate tried to pass its own cybersecurity bill, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA). While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy.

"There are just too many problems with it," the aide said of CISPA.

This is backed up by U.S. News and World Report, which has reported that a staffer on the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation explicitly claims CISPA is no longer a possibility, and senators are "drafting separate bills" to include some CISPA provisions."
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+ - How Big Data Will Save Your Life->

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes "Today, physicians and pharmaceutical companies still rely largely on text books and infinitesimally small clinical studies that typically use healthy patients with only one disease. That pool of subjects hardly mimics most real-world patients, many of whom have more than one health problem. Big data analytics engines such as Hadoop have the capability to mine the clinical data warehouses created by now mandated EHRs, warehouses filled with valuable unstructured data that can be used to help doctors make decisions about patient treatment. But Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General, believes the real game changer in medicine will be an engaged patient, one who will enter his or her own data through the use of mobile devices. And that data can include not just medical information, but also lifestyle updates involving diet and exercise. Lucas Mearian has done an exhaustive report on the matter worth a read."
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+ - Can Big Data Save Your Life?->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "The combination of electronic medical records and big data analytics is enabling a world where doctors could someday be able to perform a Google-like query on a patient's illness and instantly discover how 100,000 other doctors treated similar patients and what the outcomes were. It's also driving new treatments through genomic profiling, enabling medications to be tailored to a patient's genetic profile. But even as patient information is making the transition from paper to electronic medical records, it's also being pigeon-holed by proprietary EMR software that can't natively share with other hospitals and private physician practices. The promise of EMRs was that they would save the U.S. healthcare system up to $81 billion a year, but keyboard data entry has turned physicians into clerks, taking their attention away from their patients. "The electronic medical record has become an impediment versus something that was going to streamline your day," said Dr. Robert Walker, director of health innovation for the U.S. Army Surgeon General."
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