Encrypt Your E-mail Now [HD BizBlog 1.2]
I found this while surfing this morning, it reminds me of an email I received from the IT department at my last job. Something to do with “violating the computer user policy” by downloading web-based e-mail. I had set up Outlook to pull in my e-mail from Gmail. I used Gmail for all of my personal correspondence for 11 months before they caught on and edited my user account to remove the Gmail access.
So I loaded Thunderbird onto a USB flash drive and used that. I suppose that we both had too much time on our hands.
Up to no good at work? Software can analyze your e-mails
BEWARE, very soon big brother will be able to follow you to work. Software is being designed to allow companies to flag up employees who are potential saboteurs, industrial spies or data thieves. It might also flag up whistle-blowers.
US companies surveyed earlier this year said at least one-third of damage to business due to cybercrime was committed by insiders. “Many of the biggest financial losses tend to be due to trusted insiders, individuals who steal or who disable computer systems,†says Gilbert Peterson at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in Ohio.
Writing in a forthcoming edition of Digital Investigation, Peterson and colleagues say their software is based on an open-source algorithm called Author-Topic. Developed by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, it gauges which topics authors commonly write about. Fed a series of documents, such as academic journal articles, Author-Topic examines the frequency with which words appear in each and uses that to infer which topic that document is about. It then identifies topics that each person writes on most.
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Contact: Claire Bowles
claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk
44-207-611-1210
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