The Associated Press reported today that French authorities interviewed Francois Cousteix, or better known by his online name "Hacker Troll", for 2 days while the FBI sat in on the investigation. As an unemployed person, with admittedly very little computer savvy, Mr. Cousteix insists that the only motivation for hacking into the Twitter accounts of […]
When executives of publicly traded companies sign their annual and periodic statements, such as Form-10K or Form-10Q, with the various regulatory agencies, it is a comprehensive summary of the corporation’s performance. In signing these forms, the executive is attesting that all data pertaining to the health and viability of the organization has been fully disclosed to […]
This past week in San Fancisco, "Cyber Czar" Howard Schmidt announced the Obama Administration’s approach to confronting the cyber-threats against U.S. infrastructures. Many of the strategies outlined in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative ("CNCI") were designed to enhance the Government’s objectives of, (1) establishing a front line defense against today’s threats to our cyber-infrastructure; […]
Last week, a ruling by an Italian court in Milan set a troubling precedent by imposing a six-month suspended jail sentence on three Google, Inc., executives and one Google, Inc., officer over a video that was posted depicting an autistic boy being bullyed by a group of teenagers in Turin, Italy. Under European Union privacy law, […]