Scott Bradner

Well, that didn’t take long. Just after ChoicePoint Inc.’s identity theft problems came the announcement that Bank of America Corp. had a problem of...

Radio frequency identification is a part of the present and may well be a major part of our future. This situation is, at best, a mixed bag. It would not be quite so bad if vendors of RFID products and companies that say they want to use them better understood security and privacy.

AT&T has been in the press quite a bit of late, and not just for its effort to derail

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently held a workshop titled

Last month I got a call from the folks at VanDyke Software Inc. They wanted to chat about what needs to go away to ensure enterprise network security.

What will you think were the big Internet-related stories of 2003 looking back at it a year from now? I'm not sure they will be much different, other than in degree, than the major stories of 2002.

I know it's not Halloween, but if you want to read a scary book, try The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. I challenge you to not recognize yourself in the role of the mark in at least some of his little vignettes. And when you inevitably do, I challenge you to feel comfortable about the security of your network and corporate secrets.

You can tell that Steve Ballmer is a Harvard boy. When Microsoft Corp.'s CEO was asked about one of the company's public relations firms getting further ahead of the truth than what goes for normal at Microsoft, he replied: "If that's right, I will certainly castigate the offender."