Source: Lexology, February 5, 2010. Fight breaks out over whether hacker responsible for largest data breach in history suffers from "Internet addiction"Foley Hoag LLP"In December, Albert Gonzalez, aka "segvec," "soupnazi" and "j4guar17" pled guilty to charges that he masterminded the theft of ...

If you invent a new currency, don’t be surprised when the scammers and counterfeiters show up. Especially when your currency is itself a scam. Hackers Steal Millions in Carbon Credits The hackers launched a targeted phishing attack against employees of numerous companies in Europe, New ...

In the wake of China’s hacking attacks against Google, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently made a speech condemning “countries or individuals that engage in cyber attacks.” In response, China accused the United States of hypocrisy with respect to this tough talk, claiming that the U.S. enga ...

Yahoo!Finance has posted an article that gives insight into how social networking websites can work against you in several situations, including debt collection, employment prospects and scams that can lead to identity theft. Jobseekers should automatically assume that potential employers will do a ...

Yahoo!Finance has posted an article that gives insight into how social networking websites can work against you in several situations, including debt collection, employment prospects and scams that can lead to identity theft. Jobseekers should automatically assume that potential employers will do a ...

Der Handel mit sogenannten Emissionszertifikaten gilt als aktuelles Maß der Dinge bei der Reduzierung von Schadstoffemissionen. Über marktwirtschaftliche Regularien sollen Volkswirtschaften und Einzelunternehmen dazu gebracht werden, nach und nach weniger Emissionen etwa durch Verbrennung fossiler E ...

In December 2009, RockYou—a social networking application site—suffered a breach of its systems that exposed the email addresses and passwords of over 32 million users. RockYou offers online applications that run on popular social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendst ...

One of the IPKat's pet hypotheses, stolen from somewhere or other, is the way people pronounce the word "patent" being a fairly good (though certainly not infallible) indication of whether they know anything about the subject.  On this count at least, Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the book ...

Commercial espionage among nations should not come as a surprise to anyone involved competitive businesses. I am a proponent of the idea that American intelligence should practice it far more than we already do, which is either so brilliantly executed as to stay below the radar of public view or re ...

* Part of Yolanda Young's discrimination suit against Covington & Burling will move forward. [BLT] * Controversial New Orleans lawyer Ashton O'Dwyer is back in the news. He's gone from cursing out judges to threatening their lives. [New Orleans Times-Picayune] * The Third Circuit has taken an inte ...