Blog Posts Tagged with "Lawsuit"
Communication is King in E-Discovery Matters
May 10, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
A common vocabulary is certainly emerging making dialog between counsel and technologists productive and effective. However, equally important is that lawyers engage their client’s technology team in dialog on e-discovery issues because when counsel fails, the fall out can be costly...
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Ninth Circuit Narrows Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Reach
May 07, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The crux is the recent application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalizing violations of website terms of use and employer restrictions on employee computer uses, stemming in particular from what the statute’s term “exceeds authorized access” does and does not mean...
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Duty to Authenticate Identity: Online Banking Breach Lawsuits
April 27, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The attenuated nature of online relationships creates an opportunity for criminals to steal or spoof online identities and use them for monetary gain. The ability of one party to authenticate the identity of the other party in an online transaction is of key importance...
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A Tale of Two Encryption Cases
March 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The issue in the decryption cases is not whether the decrypted contents of the computer are testimonial. Instead, the issue in these cases is whether the ACT of decrypting information on the computer is testimonial. The answer to that question is that it depends...
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PCI: When a Breach is Not a Breach
March 09, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The lawsuit points out a disconcerting issue with a cardholder data breach: Any incident investigation initiated by the card brands under the PCI standards is going to focus on PCI compliance and not on whether or not the breach actually occurred...
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Cyber Insurance: Efficient Way to Manage Risk in the Cloud?
February 27, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
While customers may enjoy some short term cost-benefits by going into the Cloud, they may be retaining more risk then they want - especially where Cloud providers refuse to accept that risk contractually). Cyber insurance may be a solution to help solve the problem...
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Managing Employee's Expectation of Privacy
February 02, 2012 Added by:Suzanne Widup
FDA whistleblowers allege their emails were monitored once they told Congress the agency was approving risky medical devices, violating their Constitutional rights. The FDA said that employees are warned they may be monitored, and should not have an expectation of privacy...
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Restaurant Challenges US Bank and PCI DSS after Seizure of Funds
January 27, 2012 Added by:Andrew Weidenhamer
"The PCI system is less a system for securing customer card data than a system for raking in profits for the card companies via fines and penalties. Visa and MasterCard impose fines on merchants even when there is no fraud loss at all, simply because the fines are profitable...”
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Exclusive: Interview With Hacker YamaTough
January 14, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Update: “The Lords of Dharmaraja” claim to have released the source code for Symantec's Norton Utilities as was threatened earlier today. The alleged data dump has not been confirmed, and company officials have not yet released a statement. Exclusive interview with YamaTough here...
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The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly - But Exceedingly Fine
January 10, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
LIGATT (a.k.a. Greg Evans) is about to find out that once again the US government has said: “Hey, whatever happened to all that money he owes us?” Well that day has come and I do hope the government, being in such dire straights, comes after our little charlatan with both barrels...
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EFF's 2011 in Review: Hacking Laws
December 31, 2011 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
2011 has been a landmark year for prosecutions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), with the feds pursuing aggressive, high-profile cases against members of Anonymous and LulzSec, as well as open access advocate Aaron Swartz...
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Latest Data Breach Costs Could Exceed $5 Billion
October 31, 2011 Added by:Brian Dean
It is recommended that organizations receiving PII become intimately familiar with all of the applicable security requirements for their industry in order to understand minimum protection requirements, industry best practices, as well as the consequences of noncompliance...
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Citigroup Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for May Breach
October 10, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Defendants have taken no steps that adequately or effectively protect cardholders against illegal use of the cardholders’ sensitive and extensive financial records since the breach,” the suit states. Officials estimate that $2.7 million was stolen from 3,400 accounts in the attack...
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Allegations of MitM Hack of 2004 Presidential Ohio Election
July 28, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The architecture further confirms how this election was stolen. The computer system and SmarTech had the correct placement, connectivity, and computer experts necessary to change the election in any manner desired by the controllers of the SmarTech computers..."
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Google Sued for Surreptitious Android Location Tracking
May 03, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The lawsuit alleges privacy violations for the collection of location data, deceptive business practices for failing to notify customers, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for harvesting the data from individual devices...
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Lawsuit Calls Out Apple Over Stealth iOS Tracking Data
April 26, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"We take issue specifically with the notion that Apple is now basically tracking people everywhere they go... If you are a federal marshal, you have to have a warrant to do this kind of thing, and Apple is doing it without one," said Aaron Mayer, attorney for the plaintiffs...
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