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 […]
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, […]
On July 2, 2009, NetworkWorld published an article entitled, "Gartner: Seven Cloud-Computing Security Risks." A brief synopsis of the article is that, according to Gartner, "Cloud Computing" is fraught with lots of tangible and intangible risks. They suggest that a security assessment from a neutral third-party be conducted before an organization commits to a […]
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Right to Privacy is interpreted under the 4th Amendment’s prohibition of "unreasonable searches and seizures" clause. But, does that extend to private companies doing business in the U.S.? Conversely, in Canada, its Constitution establishes a Right to Privacy per se, stating that all Canadian citizens’ are entitled to their privacy. […]
Online behavioral advertising is supposed to match our search queries with products that advertisers think we would be interested in buying. However, if most people were told that their search habits were being monitored for advertising purposes (or so they would say), and then sold to the highest bidder without our knowledge or consent […]
If a cyber-terrorist wants to bring down an entire corporate infrastructure by means of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, the odds are in their favor of not being caught. What does that mean to a business? Simply put, they get stuck holding the bag, while the real culprits are never located. According […]