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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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E-discovery management: How IT should interact with the legal team

2008-03-20 08:37:38 by Trent Henry in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
...legal team. But this can be un-chartered territory for IT personnel. In this tip, contributor Trent Henry supplies some e-discovery questions IT should ask the legal team and unveils some of the conversation that needs to happen to bring the two teams together
 
Tags: legal team, electronic discovery, team strike, e-discovery questions, territory, amid, teams, relationship, tip
 
 
 
 
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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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Complying with data protection legal requirements in a Windows shop

2008-05-22 14:16:00 by Rebecca Herold, Contributor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
To find common data protection legal requirements, Windows administrators should address IT compliance by looking at all the applicable laws
 
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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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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
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on PayPal's Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

2007-11-27 18:07:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...legal liability Make clear our expectations in these areas, since this is a new and evolving area of security vulnerability disclosure with more than a little legal uncertainty Through our policy - set a standard we hope others can follow. We carefully constructed the language in the policy with our privacy lawyers to ensure that we were not...
 
Tags: disclosure, encourage responsible disclosure, responsible disclosure, security, security vulnerability disclosure, policy, security vulnerability, disclosure policies, disclosure statement
 
 
 
 
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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...legal line," he said This is not the first time Hastings says he's investigated a company's procedures and asked to be hired as a consultant. He says he found a problem with a cell phone company and it paid him $10,000 as a consultant in the late 1990s Hastings said the bank's Dumpsters aren't properly secured and it isn't shredding...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set