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Press release: “On September 22, 2006, the President signed the United States’ instrument of ratification for the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. Today, the United States became a party to the Convention upon deposit of the instrument of ratification at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Convention will enter …
Press release: “Congressman Barney Frank yesterday wrote to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and representatives of the credit reporting industry asking that they look into the numerous complaints from consumers about access to credit reports and fraud alerts.” [text of letter is included in this release]
“A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020 [Link to The Future of the Internet II (115 pages, PDF)]: A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a flattening world. Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity …
Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General — Audit Summary of Information Assurance Weaknesses Found in Audit Reports Issued from August 1, 2005, through July 31, 2006 – Report No. D-2006-110 (PDF) – Date: September 14, 2006. “This report summarizes information assurance weaknesses that the Government Accountability Office, the DoD Office of the Inspector …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the release of the Cyber Storm Public Exercise Report. The report details key findings from Cyber Storm which was the largest and most complex multi-national, government-led cyber exercise to examine response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms to a simulated cyber event within international, federal, state, …
SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics – Collecting Evidence from a Running Computer: A Technical and Legal Primer for the Justice Community, August 2006.
Press release: Carnegie Mellon CyLab researchers create new system to address phishing fraud [ZDNet] Phoolproof Phishing Prevention – Bryan Parno, Cynthia Kuo, Adrian Perrig: “Phishing attacks exploit a users inability to distinguish legitimate websites from spoofed websites. Unfortunately, humans are ill-suited for performing the security checks necessary for secure site identification. Phoolproof Phishing Prevention uses …
From the Antiphishing Working Group, the June Phishing Activity Trends Report.
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prosecutors in State Courts, 2005: “Presents findings from the 2005 National Survey of Prosecutors, the latest in a series of data collections about the Nation’s 2,300 State court prosecutors offices that tried felony cases in State courts of general jurisdiction. This study provides information on the number of staff, annual budget, …
Press release, August 14, 2006: “Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna… announced the filing of Washington’s second lawsuit under the state’s computer spyware act. The state’s suit accuses four California-based corporations of installing software that takes control of a consumer’s computer by launching aggressive and persistent pop-ups that demand payment for a movie download service.” …
Ponemon Institute Releases National Survey on Confidential Data at Risk “Stored data presents unique challenges for enterprise security, and the U.S. Survey: Confidential Data at Risk is a first-of-its-kind study on the topic. Derived from a national sampling of nearly 500 experienced information security practitioners, the survey reveals a number of key findings, including: 81 …
Consumer Alert: New Phishing Attack Claims to be FDIC “The FDIC is aware of a phishing e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The name “Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” appears on the “From” line and the subject is, “IMPORTANT: Notification of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.” This e-mail claims that the FDIC …
