Who Can You Trust? A Dispatch from the Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum: The DNA of Trust
What is trust? How to you earn it, and more importantly, keep it? That was the topic du jour at the Online Trust & Cybersecurity Forum in DC.
Greg Link of Franklin Covey made the case that leadership today isn’t about expertise. It’s about establishing trust – with your customers, your employees and partners. Without trust, you can cooperate and coordinate, but you can’t collaborate in the way that spurs innovation. He made a compelling statistical case that the lack of trust has a direct negative impact on productivity and profit.
Financial services companies are among the least trusted companies, with insurance companies and the media at rock bottom, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer. That same barometer found that stock performance once increased corporate trust. Now it’
India to Use Iris Scanners to Track Population and Help Impoverished; No ‘Big Brother’ Here
One would not think that the most populated democracy in the world would have the resources, or gumption, to institute a national identity scheme aimed at using biometrics and iris scanning to log details of India’s population of more than one billion people on a central database. But this is exactly what India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (pictured) aims to do.
The data will be stored online in what India says will be the biggest such national database in the world.The unique identification (UID) program aims to help those in poor, marginalized communities who find it difficult to access public services and benefits because they do not have official records.
While we have covered the idea of iris scanning — think “Minority Report” — the idea of India doing this does not seem as shady as this story about Mexico doing it. Perhaps it was the creepy Global Rainmakers CEO talking excitedly about iris scanners taking over the world?
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ATM Identity Theft Warning Issued by Chicago Police
Chicago police warn consumers that identity thieves are using skimming devices to steal debit card, credit card and pin numbers. The skimming devices can be attached to a real ATM machine and the information is collected can be downloaded later.
Using the downloaded information they withdraw money from your account using the internet. It happened last week in Buffalo Grove and Wheeling Illinois.
More than 150 people reported money unknowingly withdrawn from their accounts, after ATM cards were used at a local grocery store. One customer checked her bank account and found $1,500 just disappeared.
Police say the transactions were done in California.
Chicago police also warn people to watch out for what they call “shoulder surfers” — people who peek over your shoulder at the ATM.
Woman Drags Naked Intruder By His Beard
‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’…then there is this woman.
They say “never hit a woman”. The reason is because women don’t just hit back, they keep hitting back until they are done with you. Plus it isn’t cool.
“A 64-year-old woman fought off a neighbor and dragged him out of her house by his beard after he let himself into her Kansas City home and took his clothes off. The woman said she awoke about 12:50 a.m and found her 62-year-old neighbor standing over her naked, as she tried to throw him out, he allegedly grabbed her throat. She picked up a tape measure and bonked it against his head three times. He left.”
Moment’s later police found him outside crying. I think I’d cry too after a bonk on the head and a whooping like that.
Resistance in this situation worked out for the victim. At 64 she decided she wasn’t going to sit back and allow the intruder to make advances on her in any way.
What is important to understand is in any attack situation the victim actually has a lot of control over the outcome if they react within the first 30-60 seconds. What the victim does in t
Disney Secretary Busted for Trying to Sell Company Secrets
Just because you work for a major organization that aims to entertain and make the young and old happy does not always mean that you are a good person. This pearl of wisdom was just reinforced by a story about a secretary at Disney who tried to sell the company’s financial secrets.
The culprit is Bonnie Hoxie, 34, who came up with this plan to sell inside information so she could buy designer bags and shoes. Hoxie, who worked for a Disney public relations executive was charged with conspiring with boyfriend Yonni Sebbag, 30, to sell financial secrets and documents. The California couple sent out anonymous letters to dozens of investment companies, which in turn contacted the FBI.
Trying to sell financial secrets of your employer is not really a good idea — especially if you work for Disney. This is a story that is ripe for media and blogger coverage — wait, that’s exactly what we are doing right now (smile). And, on