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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...legally murky -- market for selling weapons from former Eastern Bloc countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments through his company, Defense Solutions Photo: H. Rumph Jr/AP The Russians want to sell weapons to Iraq...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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EU aims to clarify legal status of IP addresses

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0d77c in Network World on Security
 
Europe's top data protection officials are working to clarify a grey area of Internet law: the legal status of an IP (Internet Protocol) address Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: legal status, wan acceleration technologies, paper explores, internet protocol, internet law, advertisement, differences, register, europe
 
 
 
 
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E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats

2008-03-22 03:00:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
New Jersey election officials have scrapped plans to hire a Princeton University computer science professor for a voting machine security review after receiving legal threats from the the vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems. Sequoia says that unauthorized independent review would violate the county's license agreement and jeopardize Sequoia's intellectu
 
Tags: legal threats, machine security review, jersey election officials, sequoia, license agreement, independent review, vendor, plans, hire
 
 
 
 
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3 takeaways from security-flaw legal flap between MBTA, MIT students

2008-08-22 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
IT managers can learn some lessons from the legal case in which Boston's MBTA tried and ultimately failed to stop three MIT students from discussing security flaws that they found in its fare-payment system
 
Tags: mit students, fare-payment system, mbta, security flaws, legal, ultimately, boston, stop, lessons
 
 
 
 
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Australia's Internet filter: legal content be banned, too?

2008-10-28 21:00:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Australia's government-mandated Internet filtering system won't allow users to opt out of a filtering tier that targets "illegal" material. But a conservative party is already suggesting that legal material be added to the mandatory tier
 
Tags: mandatory tier, tier, legal material, material, conservative party, internet, australia, targets, illegal
 
 
 
 
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Australia's Internet filter: legal content be banned, too?

2008-10-28 21:00:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Australia's government-mandated Internet filtering system won't allow users to opt out of a filtering tier that targets "illegal" material. But a conservative party is already suggesting that legal material be added to the mandatory tier
 
Tags: mandatory tier, tier, legal material, material, conservative party, internet, australia, targets, illegal
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...legal entitlements which are concerned with the protection and usage of recorded media (TV programmes/films/music), written works, names and inventions. IP is usually in the form of a patent a copyright a trademark or a design Every country has its own form of copyright legislation. In the UK, the UK Patent Office provides substantial...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Do You Speak E-Discovery? You Should, Even in Europe

2008-07-24 12:05:25 by Posted By: Carsten Casper and John Bace in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...legal discovery (called "e-discovery" when electronic information is involved) is unique to the "common law" countries - notably the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Discovery in common-law civil litigation is a form of interrogatory in which both parties agree to the pretrial exchange of information, so that the plaintiff...
 
Tags: e-discovery, e-discovery simply, e-discovery actions, sensitive information, information, include information, discovery, produce relevant information, e-discovery claims
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...legal. In the wake of the 2006 Hewlett-Packard scandal, detectives used pretexting to obtain the private telephone records of company directors, employees, and journalists. In an effort to track leaks to the media, federal law was tightened to prohibit using fraudulent means to obtain telephone records. Financial records were already...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain