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From the Committee on Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property September 4, 2003 – Oversight Hearing on “Internet Domain Name Fraud – the U.S. Governments Role in Ensuring Public Access to Accurate Whois Data”: Witness List testimony of: Steven Metalitz, Benjamin Edelman, James Farnan, Theodore Kassinger. See also: Lax controls encourage Web …
The Internet and Emergency Preparedness: A joint survey with Federal Computer Week magazine: this nine page (pdf) data memo documents 13 survey questions, and the answers provided by 1001 adult Americans (coincidentally conducted before the power outages that hit the eastern US, Toronto and Ottowa two weeks ago). From the summary: “Half of Americans fear …
According to this Washington Post article, the nation’s largest ISPs are responding to the recent escalation of email viruses (Blaster and SoBig.F) innundating customer accounts by planning to implement scanning applications to screen all attached documents. With as many as half of all incoming emails infected with viruses, AOL, Comcast, Microsoft, and Covad have already …
Sleuths Try to Stay Step Ahead of Online Worms. Computer security and antivirus companies around the world are working to stay one step ahead of viruses that are increasingly impacting corporations, government agencies and home users. These “virus sleuths” are also assisting the FBI to track down and minimize the damage from malicious worms such …
A GAO report released August 12 determined that the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys has serious security issues associated with the administration of IT systems, with specific concerns detailing the operation of a virtual private network (VPN) linking the 93 U.S. Attorney offices located throughout the US. Information Technology: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys …
A new Business Software Alliance (BSA) state-by-state study indicates a slight decline in software piracy in the United States, with overall national loses to be approximately $1.9 billion. The study provides data that includes: state piracy rate, state dollar retail losses, state employment losses, total wage and salary losses, total tax losses, as well as …
ID Theft Continues to Increase: “The number of Americans who fell victim to identity theft in 2002 grew 81 percent over the year before. And incidents reported so far in 2003 suggest a major rise over last year…More than 13 million Americans have fallen victim to identity theft or fraud since January 2001,” according to …
“Copying is Theft …” And other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer, by Mark D. Rasch, J.D., former head of the Justice Department’s computer crime unit, and now Senior Vice President and Chief Security Counsel at Solutionary Inc. “The RIAA, MPAA and copyright holders describe P2P users as “pirates” – invoking images of …
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a new website, Telemarketing Fraud Enforcement, which includes: the text of enforcement action announcements since October 1, 2002 a link to Summary of Enforcement Action Announcements from January-July 2003 a link to consumer information on numerous types of fraud (online and offline), with content available in text or …
Legislative hearing on H.R. 2517, the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003, to enhance criminal enforcement of the copyright laws, educate the public about the application of copyright law to the Internet, and clarify the authority to seize unauthorized copyrighted works. Witness List, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Jana Monroe (FBI), David Trust (Professional Photographers of …
The Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003 (H.R. 2752), introduced on July 16. “The bill carries penalties of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for uploading a copyrighted file to a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, ” according to dcinternet.com. Section-by Section Anaylsis Floor statement of bill sponsor, …
New cellphones used in “digital shoplifting” “Tokyo – Japanese publishers said on Monday they will launch a campaign this week to stop digital shoplifters – people who visit bookstores to photograph magazine pages with their cellphones rather than make a purchase.” [[email protected]]
