Underscoring their view that long-standing FTC guidance for fair and transparent consumer privacy practices applies equally to mobile applications, on September 5th, the FTC released Marketing Your Mobile App: Get It Right from the Start This...
Read More →In a Missouri U.S. District Court decision from August 20th, counterclaims by a bank against a commercial customer have been dismissed in a case where hackers accessed the customer’s account and drained it of over...
Read More →Yesterday, by a vote of 52-46, the cloture vote on the bill, known officially as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S. 3414) and also commonly referred to as Lieberman-Collins failed, mostly on party lines For...
Read More →A federal court of appeals has ruled that a bank did not take “commercially reasonable” security procedures to protect a customer business’s account, and might therefore not be entitled to compensation from the customer for...
Read More →The media is abuzz with stories about Stuxnet, a piece of malware that many allege the United States and Israel created to damage or destroy Iranian centrifuges used to enrich uranium. Some stories have called...
Read More →On May 25, the FCC released its long-awaited Location-Based Services report, presenting the agency’s findings on the challenges and concerns it faces in regulating mobile services that rely on information about a user’s physical location. ...
Read More →A recent exchange of letters between Sen. John McCain and General Keith Alexander (Director of NSA and the Commander of USCYBERCOM) highlights the continuing tension between supporters of McCain’s SECURE IT Act of 2012 (S.2151)...
Read More →The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (“CISPA”), H.R. 3523, passed in the House yesterday (April 26) in a 248 – 168 vote, despite opposition from several groups and a veto threat from the White...
Read More →This past Friday March 30th, Randy Sabett had the pleasure of appearing on the Silver Bullet Podcast, sponsored by Cigital, Inc. Cigital is a consulting firm that specializes in software security and is a leader in...
Read More →In his annual appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week (on March 27), Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA (DIRNSA) and the Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), described several successes...
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