http://www.techsecuritytoday.com/index.php/our-contributors/michael-vizard/entry/lifting-the-veil-on-cybercrime This says it all: At the end of the day, cybercriminal activity is not all that different from more traditional forms of organized crime. Obviously, the way the crime is perpetrated is new, but the ways in which cybercriminals operate is not all that different from anything that has …
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kootol-joins-Lodsys-as-a-patent-troll/?kc=LNXDEVNL072111 The Debt ceiling crisis will pass; even if there is a crash, the USA can recover from it … IF its core economic worth, that is its industrial productivity, is unharmed. There are a number of ways this can be harmed, poor credit rating among them, lack of availability …
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Sony+backs+cybersecurity+legislation/5030033/story.html “If nothing else, perhaps the frequency, audacity and harmfulness of these attacks will help encourage Congress to enact new legislation to make the Internet a safer place for everyone,” the Sony executive said. “By working together to enact meaningful cybersecurity legislation we can limit the threat posed to U.S. …
On the one hand there this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/10/new_york_isp_crackdown/ and on the other, when it comes down to practice, there’s this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/australian_adult_content_filter_failure/ Now please don’t think I support p0rn. But surely … One of the principles of good home economics is to pay down your most expensive (usually credit card) debts first. …
It seems that to make better cybersecurity-related decisions a senior FBI official recommends considering a simple algebraic equation: risk = threat x vulnerability x consequence rather than solely focusing on threat vectors and actors. To be honest, I sometimes wonder why people obsess about threat vectors in the first place. …
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10405824-83.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39909136,00.htm http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014530o-2000331761b,00.htm The thin edge of the wedge was when pubs were fined or letting patrons get drunk, drunk enough that they shouldn’t drive. Now that wedge is being driven further.
Yesterday, my friend and collegue, Rob Slade, noted that … Idly leafing through yet another IT executive rag (preparatory to recycling it), and noticed an article on privacy by the head of a data destruction company. He was talking about the problem of “data reminisce.” Well, it may not have …
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a5wZ95KdSuJQ This is something we should *ALL* be aware off, not least those that think legal and world economic stuff is off topic. We all have to face standards; or the most part those are dictated by industry groups and we can, if we choose, partake of those. I’ve been …
People occasionally ask about InfoSec courses that cover law and cyberlaw and about schools that offer cyberlaw programs. I’m curious about this whole thing for a slightly tangential reason. On the one hand there’s the idea of Cyberlaw as part of a general law school curriculum. On the other, there’s …
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/03b813a2-f13b-4c3e-9494-ae9064f25da3.html “When they outlaw X only criminals will have X” … for many values of the members of the set of Y. There’s the old saw: People who won’t quit making the same mistake over and over are what we call conservatives. No, they are politicians. He added that making …
My collegue Sami O. Koskinen said “I always felt like the new biometric passport is just a show” and I have to agree with him. He also has reservations about the idea of building a national fingerprint database covering all citizen, and I would think visitors to a country. He …
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3874 There’s an old joke about a man brought before the court for breaking and entering, not because he was caught in the commission of a crime but because he was found in possession of housebreaking tools – crowbars, glass-cutter and so forth. When found guilty by the judge he …
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