Digital Agenda: Homeland security--A global assault on anonymity
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Cutting-edge data mining and other intelligence tools could redefine privacy as we know it. A News.com special report.
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The Department of Homeland Security's Project Hostile Intent aims to use behavioral profiling technology to catch bad guys posing as good guys. But getting it to work could be a challenge.
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Worried about people accessing your  private information whenever you use a public computer? There  is a way to protect yourself: Devices as small as a keychain  allow you to use any computer without leaving a trail of  evidence.
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A new airport security system relies on human judgment
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Homeland Security ditches a 2003 data-mining program created to monitor immigration, customs, border protection and biological defense after investigators find it was tested with data about real people without meeting privacy requirements. DHS says the Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement program was too time-consuming to use.
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A security researcher discovers that private Facebook profiles can reveal startlingly personal information.
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As RFID-chipped passports gain adoption around the world, successful attempts to crack them are on the rise as well. Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have already reported compromised data, while countries such as New Zealand remain sure it can't happen there. But what if the goal wasn't data theft but detonation?
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Anonymous data sets are an enormous boon for researchers, but the recent de-anonymization of Netflix customer data shows there are privacy risks as well. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Networld World's Scott Bradner has gotten a good look at the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act Of 2007. He's much, much less than impressed.
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The dusty shelves of your local library are going high-tech with tagging chips. Civil liberties groups warn of a privacy nightmare.
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A &quot;formidable information and technology management challenge&quot; faces the Homeland Security Department, according a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.
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Also: Privacy: The problem that won't go away. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By Anonymous  The announcement in Septem
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Researchers expose privacy problems with the iPod Nano and Nike running aid.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will host a invite-only conference two months from now that will bring together security experts from law enforcement, Internet service providers, and the technology industry. The Internet Security Operations and Intelligence (ISOI) workshop will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington D.C. It is expected to draw about 240 participants who will engage in a frank discussion of the latest trends in cybercrime, said Gadi Evron, a security evangelist with Beyond Security who is one of the event's planners. "It's an organized group of volunteers from all across the industry, governments, and services," he said via instant message. "All trusted people, all people who do something extra than their job... We respond to international threats and mitigate them, and establish global cooperation across borders daily." The conference will be hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security. This group has met previously in hush-hush events hosted on the campuses of Microsoft and Cisco Systems, and has helped in the response to a number of cyber-crime incidents including the denial of service attacks in Estonia and the recent compromise of Miami's Dolphin Stadium Web site, whichÂ was hackedÂ just days before the stadium played host to the National Football League's Super Bowl game. Because the conference is attended by a pre-screened audience (the press is not invited, thank you very much), presenters at the ISOI workshops offer a deeper level of technical detail than at other events, said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research with Websense, who is presenting in August. "It really helps communicate the struggles on both sides of the coin." Hubbard will be discussing a new tool he has developed for detecting infections of social networking Web sites, called HoneyJax. Similar to a "honeypot" computer, which is designed to lure cyber-attackers, HoneyJax "allows you to track exploits in the Web 2.0 world and helps assist in the identification of misuse of these technologies" Hubbard said. Other scheduled talks will cover topics such as theÂ Estonian cyber-attacks, the use of Web-based mail for spam, and "Phishing and the IRS." Speakers will be from organizations such as Cisco, AOL, McAfee, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia. The workshops attract a "pretty good spread of people," said Exploit Prevention Labs Chief Technology Officer Roger Thompson, another presenter. "It's really just a forum for security professionals in different disciplines to get together and talk over a beer." Â
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What happens when ubiquitous computing renders us mere searchable, mappable, traceable specks of data? Commentary by Momus.