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From VeriSign’s press release today: “VeriSign’s Anti-Phishing Solution protects enterprises through a five-tiered solution that helps prevent, detect and respond to attacks, thereby mitigating and eliminating identity theft and email fraud attempts.”
From the Campaign for Verifiable Voting: “The eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed a motion for a preliminary injunction today to preserve the integrity of the November 2004 elections and restore public trust and confidence in the system by which Maryland voters will help elect the next President of the United States.” Litigation documents associated …
H.R. 2929, the Safeguard Against Privacy Invasions Act or Spy Act, was approved by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 45-4, on June 24. Declan McCullagh highlights the latest amendments to the bill: “Network providers may use monitoring software to guard against network security and fraud; software vendors may choose from certain specific notices when …
From the LA Times (reg. req’d), PeopleSoft Lawyer’s Weblog Is Fresh Twist in Spin Wars. View from the Court
Press release from Keynote: News Media Web Sites Vary Dramatically in Speed and Reliability. “CBSNews.com, CNBC.com and BBC.com Tops in Speed; CNN.com, CNBC.com and NBC.com Get High Marks for Reliability.”
The Reporters Without Borders annual report, The Internet Under Surveillance 2004.
Making Knowledge Management Work on your Intranet, by Shiv Singh: “This article discusses typical KM challenges facing large organizations and how a company intranet can be leveraged to create lasting and measurable business value.”
From the press release by Zoe Lofgren (CA 16): “Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-16), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-06), and Lamar Smith (R-TX-21) today introduced bipartisan legislation to address the most egregious activities that are conducted via spyware and make those activities criminal offenses. HR 4661, the Internet Spyware (I-SPY) Prevention Act of 2004, will be referred to …
From Computer World: “A new Internet attack discovered late yesterday was designed by an infamous group of Russian virus writers to steal credit card and other financial information from Web surfers and send it to Web sites where it can be retrieved by the hackers, security experts warned today.”
The text of the Induce Act (S. 2560), and the Statement of Senator Orrin G. Hatch, are via Susan Crawford Blog. Commentary from Declan McCullagh.
Press release from National Security Archive: “The United States Supreme Court today remanded to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals a case concerning the application of a federal open government law to the Energy Task Force chaired by Vice President Cheney in 2001.” From the National Resources Defense Council, The Cheney Energy Task Force – …
New on LLRX.com for June 21, 2004: A Selective Guide to Online International Arbitration Resources UK Constitutional Reform Notes from the Tech Trenches: Spicy Handouts for Tastier Training FOIA Facts: Ronald Reagan’s FOIA Legacy Wisdom from the Grammar Goddess: Breaking the Spell After Hours: Travel Tip, Book It! and Time Travel Tickets, Part II (Old-Fashioned …