A lawyer out of Virginia seems to think that he has found a way to sue those ellusive hackers that roam cyberspace looking for opportunities to steal information and profit from it.  However, are the legal methods he is imploring good practice, or a waste and drain on valuable resources which end up punishing […]

  Today, in Federal Court for the Western District of Washington, Judge Richard Jones dismissed two class actions that were filed against coffee giant Starbucks, Corporation.  I had been following these two cases closely (Krottner v. Starbucks Corp., and Lalli v. StarbucksCorp.), and from the beginning, the Plaintiff’s never really stood a chance of winning.  […]

  I will continue to follow the developments on this story, as I feel it is important for business executives to understand the potential fallout and collateral damage that may occur from a cyber-attack, if proper safeguards and controls are not in place.    Last weeks DDoS attack on Twitter and Facebook, as it turns […]

  In The New York Times yesterday, Tim Arango reported on how the popular websites run by Gawker Media were apparently hit with a distributed denial-of-service, or DDOS, attack rendering access impossible.  The most interesting aspect of the report is how it highlights what the victim, in this case Gawker Media, of a DDOS attack […]

  In The New York Times today, John Markoff and Thom Shanker wrote about how, in 2003, the Pentagon and other military intelligence agencies planned a cyberattack against Saddam Hussein that would have crippled his financial infrastructure in the buildup to the war.  However, officials nixed the idea for fear that the results would have far-reaching, […]