Improving Android Security with Encryption
Jul 26,
2012
When developing Android applications for any professional organisation, the question of security always comes up, as indeed it should. There are many issues that should be considered regarding mobile application security so let’s take a look at one common one: data encryption. The first thing to do it to analyse your data and see it […]
Drought and Floods
Jul 25,
2012
There is a drought here in New Mexico, according to the weather folks on TV. We’ve had some rain, but our precipitation is below normal this year. You may have read about the forest fires in New Mexico and that is a direct result of the drought. Yahoo! had a password “leak” last week (as […]
The Undetectable Threat of Cloud Sprawl
Jul 23,
2012
In my previous post, I shared about how someone’s greatest fear about cloud computing was how easy it can be. It is so easy, and so tempting, for someone inside your organization to quickly and quietly push some of your data out into the cloud. There is no trail left to tell that this happened, […]
The Scariest Thing About Cloud Computing…
Jul 16,
2012
If you ask several people what scares them about cloud computing, you will get several answers. Here’s one I hadn’t thought of in exactly these terms. Someone told me that the thing that just terrified them about cloud computing was how easy it was. That might sound a little strange, but he had an excellent […]
Hackers in the Media
Jul 12,
2012
I was looking at the Prezi site today (and you should too, if you give presentations) and I found this: Hackers in the Media. The creator is Molly Sauter of the Center for Civic Media at MIT. You should watch it for two reasons: 1) it does a fantastic job of examining how the media […]