May 28, 2011 – 10:59 am
On the heels of the breach that potentially exposed RSA’s source code for its SecurID tokens- the same tokens used every day by thousands of employees to access their corporate VPNs - a defense contractor acknowledged on May 27, 2011 that its network may have been compromised as an indirect result of the RSA breach. [...]
May 20, 2011 – 7:59 am
On May 18, 2011, Jacoby & Meyers Law Offices LLP filed lawsuits challenging state professional rules in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that prohibit non-lawyers from having an ownership interest in law firms. The New York lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and alleges that Rule 5.4 of [...]
May 9, 2011 – 10:04 pm
Apparently seeking to mimic the success of the “do not call” registry, on May 9, 2011, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced an online “do not track” privacy bill that would give consumers the ability to block companies from tracking their online activities. The proposed Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011 comes on the heels of another [...]
May 4, 2011 – 8:35 am
On the heels of the awareness created by a recent California Supreme Court decision, the actions of a German privacy advocate, and a widely tweeted Wall Street Journal article, Google has been sued for its holding of location-based tracking information. This action differs from an earlier Apple lawsuit in several respects outlined by infosec island. Given the broad scope of the [...]
