FCC to Release Cybersecurity Tool for Small Businesses
In a move designed to heighten the awareness of U.S. small and medium businesses (SMBs) to the issues surrounding cybersecurity and help them develop appropriate defenses, the Federal Communications...
View ArticleDOJ Needs “Additional Tools” To Fight Cybersecurity Threat from Transnational...
In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism yesterday (Tuesday, November 1), Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer provided insight into the Strategy to Combat...
View ArticleDIRNSA: “The theft of IP is astounding”
In his annual appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week (on March 27), Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA (DIRNSA) and the Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM),...
View ArticleA Major Step Forward in Cyber Legislation
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (“CISPA”), H.R. 3523, passed in the House yesterday (April 26) in a 248 – 168 vote, despite opposition from several groups and a veto threat from the...
View ArticleBig Data Meets Big Content: Advertisers Issue Best Practices Against Online...
Last week, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) took a stance against pirated content sites by issuing a “Statement of Best...
View ArticleD. Mass.: Websites Can Be “Places of Public Accommodation” Subject to the...
In a controversial decision, the Massachusetts District Court has ruled that Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming video service must comply with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
View ArticleStrike That, You Can Resell Your Licensed Software: E.U. High Court Rewrites...
In a decision today, Europe’s highest court ruled that software makers do not have copyright claims against resellers of their copyrighted programs, even when such resales entail the copying of...
View ArticleObama: Pass Cybersecurity Act of 2012 To Address An “Urgent National-Security...
In an op-ed piece today (July 20) entitled “Taking the Cybersecurity Threat Seriously,” President Obama invokes images of derailed trains carrying industrial chemicals creating toxic clouds and water...
View ArticleCraigslist v.Crawlers: Who Owns the Data?
Last week saw an interesting development in craigslist’s lawsuit against 3Taps, brought in July 2012, in which the classified ad site alleged that 3Taps impermissibly crawled or scraped craigslist.com...
View ArticleNew Rogers Bill Calls for Deporting of Cyberspies
Rep. Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, announced via Twitter Wednesday night (6/5) that “[Thursday] @ 12:30 @RepTimRyan @SenRonJohnson and I will introduce new legislation to...
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