A strong majority of courts across the United States, both federal and state, have taken a common stance when it comes to addressing data breaches related to customer financial information (i.e. name, address, social security number, credit card numbers, etc.). They have stated that the plaintiff’s who have had their personally identifiable information (or "PII") breached as […]
Imagine one of the following scenarios: (1) details about ABC Company’s latest strategic development plan has ended up on a popular Internet Web Site, to which ABC Company is now forced to scrap the plans that could have gained them substantial leverage in the marketplace; or (2) corporate financial data was inadvertently sent to […]
In The New York Times today, Steve Lohr wrote an article about how the drive towards making patient records available online has taken a huge step forward by a major New York regional hospital group, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. The group plans on offering its affiliated doctors subsidies of up to $40,000 […]
Back on June 30th of this year, I wrote a blog entry about how shocked I was to see a sign posted on the city limits of Medina, WA, which informed all incoming motorists that they are being "watched" by Medina city officials. As a follow up to what I reported back in June, a […]
The New York Times reported today that over the weekend an unknown group of people placed a rogue advertisement onto the Web site’s homepage. The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people who visited the site. In a common scheme used by hackers, the users were "invited" to download a program to […]
As the Twitter phenomenom continues to explode, and more and more people feel the necessary urge to tell the entire world what they are doing at every exact moment, one major issues continues to emerge, namely, how are businesses supposed to react towards Twitter from an internal policy standpoint? Twitter, can create a multitude […]
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 […]