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No secret that Walmart is hurting many older retail chains such as Kmart and Sears. Both latter companies are struggling to stay afloat, trimming the fat by closing locations and restructuring current stores to look refreshed and up to speed with America’s #1 retail giant. But now Sears and Kmart has come under fire for …

For my Israeli readers – הדבר היחיד שיותר גרוע מלהיות לא רציני זה לצאת פרייר. I’m collecting data for a couple of articles on data security in social networks and ad-hoc mobile networks so I’ve been a little slow on blogging lately – so I’m down to general management and risk management stuff. I think …

Ian Fleming once remarked how American road signs were so sexy – “winding curves” and “soft shoulders”. I was thinking of Ian Fleming  taking an unexpected 5K walk at night on the shoulders of a 6 line freeway. Last night I was driving my daughter’s car on Route 6.   There was a leak in the …

David Benyon from Op Risk and Compliance magazine reports A new bribery and corruption legislation will be put before the UK parliament. Doing business using bribery would mean jail for a decade under the bill. “The new Bribery Bill will make it far easier for companies and senior management to be prosecuted where bribes have …

Small businesses need information security – perhaps even more than a big business because they probably have less resources and are more vulnerable to hackers. NIST has released guidelines for Small Business Information Security -

A talk I give recently at one of our Thursday online workshops on data security More data security presentations from danny lieberman

My prospects are out, it’s beautiful weather (already got my morning ride in thank you) and time to clean up my desk for the weekend. I need to talk about data security presentations. Most of them are horrible – heavy on technical details or heavy on corporate marketing fluff.  If the presentation is about same …

After a discussion with a client today about privacy and data security in social networking, I started looking at physician portals and came across a fascinating post from Dr. Scott Shreve – Knowledge Prostitution enabling Aggregated Voyeurism: Is this a Business Model? Voyeurism (voi-yûr’ ĭz‘əm) n. 1. The practice in which an individual derives pleasure from …