dc:title="Information Security Whose Responsibility is It? " dc:description="Information Security [^] Whose Responsibility is It? This paper, contributed by Guillermo Ortiz-Caceres, discusses the responsibility consumers have and how security can be achieved through education of best practices.
" The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work rose for the second year with Internet bloggers and online reporters now one third of those incarcerated, a U.S.-based media watchdog said on Thursday.
A Committee to Protect Journalists census found that a record 134 journalists were in jail on December 1 -- an increase of nine from the 2005 tally -- in 24 countries with China, Cuba, Eritrea and Ethiopia the top four nations to imprison media. While print reporters, editors and photographers again made up the largest number of jailed journalists -- with 67 cases -- there were 49 imprisoned Internet journalists, making them the second biggest category, the New York-based committee said. "We're at a crucial juncture in the fight for press freedom because authoritarian states have made the Internet a major front in their effort to control information," Committee Executive Director Joel Simon said in a statement.
"China is challenging the notion that the Internet is impossible to control or censor, and if it succeeds there will be far-ranging implications, not only for the medium but for press freedom all over the world." When UBS PaineWebber hired Roger Duronio as a full-time IT systems administrator in 1999, it failed to do a background check on him. A background investigation most likely would've revealed that Duronio has a criminal record that includes charges of burglary and aggravated assault.
UBS probably wishes it had looked a little deeper into Duronio's past. Next week he's slated to be sentenced for launching a "logic bomb" in UBS's systems that crashed 2,000 of the company's servers and left 17,000 brokers unable to make trades.
UBS's experience highlights the need for companies to conduct background checks on their IT workers, especially those who have access to key systems and applications.
"What do you know about your own people?" asks Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a security firm. "You better consider how important IT is.
Consider if you could keep on doing business if someone inside hit you with a logic bomb. If you can't, you should think about background checks."
Paller calls the Duronio case "a perfect illustration of the value of a background check.
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writes "In , an RIAA who indicates that she had never even heard of file sharing until the RIAA came knocking on her door, the judge sound recordings were downloaded and distributed.' When her lawyers got a they saw that it had no such statement in it, and " [ ] Almost exactly one year ago, I the beginning of the end for DRM on digital music. Now EMI has the release of the new Norah Jones single on Yahoo!
Music in DRM-free MP3 format (many will remember that Yahoo! has been the major labels to give up DRM).
So let's pause to recap the year in music DRM's slow demise, including:
- Rhapsody and Napster begin streaming ;
- Major labels all give up on CD copy protection in US market in the wake of the debacle;
- Major labels abandon DRM-laden SACD and DVD-A formats;
- Sony-BMG Jessica Simpson song in MP3;
- Disney's Hollywood Records Jesse McCartney album as MP3s;
- EMI artist Lily Allen new track as MP3;
- EMI Norah Jones and Reliant K tracks as MP3s;
- eMusic becomes the selling nothing but MP3 files from independent labels.
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