Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:11 am

Super-Identity: Project focuses on real and cyber identities

Southampton (ip-192.com): The complex nature of identity, both in the real world and online, is the focus of a three year study at the University of Southampton. The project, which will investigate ‘Super-Identities’, aims to tackle the issues associated with unreliable and counterfeit identification and provide a faster and more efficient way of combating the [...]

Facebook asks for articles of incorporation to verify sites

Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Facebook is now asking some users and corporations to submit articles of incorporation, business tax filings, business licenses, or copies of utility bills to confirm a page. The social networking service that has more than 800 million active users does not say how it will use and protect such sensitive information, who [...]

Facebook: German State bans “like” button

Kiel (ip-192.com): It’s not all love in Germany when it comes to Facebook. The Data Protection Commissioner’s Office (ULD) in the State of Schleswig Holstein warned companies to use the service and recommended that institutions shut down their fan pages on the social networking site and remove social plug-ins such as the “like” button from [...]

Gartner: Layered approach to protect IT

Stamford (ip-192.com): By 2014, 15 percent of enterprises will adopt layered fraud prevention techniques for their internal systems to compensate for weaknesses inherent in using only authentication methods Gartner, Inc. says. Multiple layers of fraud prevention or authentication must be employed to defend against today's attacks and those that have yet to appear, the IT [...]