Schools store a ton of confidential information about their students. They need to take steps to protect it. Read about essential data protection practices for schools, including developing a security plan, applying firewalls, using encryption, securing devices, and wiping unnecessary data.
Silent Circle, The New Encryption App That Is Terrifying The Government
Silent Circle, The New Encryption App That Is Terrifying The Government
The idea is to “democratize encryption” by making it available to the non-tech-savvy w…
Commentary on Stephen's Web ~ Moocs and K12 Cloud: Privacy regulations and Risk Management by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
INFOGRAPHIC: How Facebook’s Graph Search Affects Your Privacy
News and insights from our editors, reporters and columnists, including coverage of lead-based digital marketing that occurs when a brand or retailer pays a platform or publisher for a lead, click or sale via SEM, SEO, direct mail, commerce, mobile, email and chat messaging.
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams - Sl
coolnumbr12 writes "Chinese hackers have infiltrated a sensitive U.S. Army database that contains information about the vulnerabilities of thousands of dams located throughout the United States. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams (NID) has raised concerns that information g...
Tools for the paranoid: 5 free security tools to protect your data
Whether we work with trade secrets or just prefer to keep our stock trades secret, we all have data that's invaluable to us--and valuable to online evildoers. PCWorld reveals five free tools for protecting passwords, browsing anonymously, and encrypting our most precious documents.