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I read this morning in Michael Krisgram’s blog, the US congressman that has twitted (by the way, we should use as an indicator of business success the acceptance of company names as verbs …) confidential information about his route while travelling through Iraq recently.  Krisgram wonders whether the massive adoption of  Twitter may become a security/confidentiality issue for governments going forward.  In the corporate world, we are asking ourselves if this avalanche of business information communicated by employees which are not official speakers may have consequences through the leakage of sensitive information to the market that may even put companies’ strategies at risk.

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It was reported yesterday that information relating to the monthly Barometer published by the Spanish CIS (Centro de Investigaciones sociológicas) was leaked.  The Chairman of this Government organization has initiated an investigation to clear if there has been a security breach.  The blogger that published the information in advance has apologized for all inconveniences caused and explained that he did not have any access to privileged information.  He explained that he just “guessed” the URL where the report had been posted because they always follow the same structure.

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Last week we organized the First Security Blogger Summit in Madrid. I liked the idea from the start because we would be bringing together really interesting people (including Bruce Schneier). I’m glad to see it wasn’t just me who liked it, but also the 200 people (not including Panda personnel who didn’t want to miss it, of course…) who turned up to listen to the speakers: renowned names in the field of IT security and figures whose opinions carry considerable weight in our industry.

Many of those who attended have already published their opinions on some of the issues discussed (Enrique Dans, Security by Default, Error 500, Jorge Hierro, Periodista Digital or ADSLZone). We have also published our own conclusions along with some of the ideas put forward during the event.

At lunch one of the topics that I discussed with JulioAlonso, José Cerdán and Byron Acohido, was how bloggers are changing the media landscape and allowing all of us to be much better informed about the topics that interests us the most. One point that came up during the discussion was that while blogs allow us to have more detailed and up-to-the-minute information on our favorite topics, they also have a secondary effect:  we tend to narrow the information down far more and limit it to whatever our areas of interest are.

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