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The growing popularity of wireless technology may have finally attracted enough hackers to make the potential for serious security threats a reality. The world of computers and communications, the more widely a technology is used, the more likely it is to become the target of hackers. Such is the case with mobile technology, particularly smartphones, which have exploded in popularity in recent years...
The transformation to smarter cities will require innovation in planning, management, and operations. Several ongoing projects around the world illustrate the opportunities and challenges of this transformation. Cities must get smarter to address an array of emerging urbanization challenges, and as the projects highlighted in this article show, several distinct paths are available. The number of cities...
Because it is increasingly difficult if not impossible to define the perimeter that separates the trusted inside from the untrusted outside, many security and privacy mechanisms no longer work in an online world.
The boundary between the trusted inside and the untrusted outside blurs when a company adopts cloud computing. The organization's applications and data are no longer onsite, fundamentally changing the definition of a malicious insider.
A large-scale study of more than half a million Facebook posts suggests that members of online social networks can expect a significant chance of encountering spam posts and a much lower but not negligible chance of coming across malicious links.
Machine-readable policies can stick to data to define allowed usage and obligations as it travels across multiple parties, enabling users to improve control over their personal information. The EnCoRe project has developed such a technical solution for privacy management that is suitable for use in a broad range of domains.
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