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Jurors say Secure Computing infringed on Finjan patents

2008-03-13 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
A jury in the U.S. District Court for Delaware has found that Secure Computing infringed on three Finjan Software patents related to Web security technologies
 
Tags: finjan software patents, web security technologies, secure, district court, delaware, jury
 
 
 
 
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Transurety says patents provide for Internet insurance

2008-09-08 00:00:00 by Stephen Lawson in Network World on Security
 
Individuals and businesses sending confidential information over the Internet may soon be able to buy insurance and be compensated paid if the data is lost or stolen, according to a company that has been issued four patents on making that insurance work
 
Tags: insurance, internet, confidential information, patents, businesses, data, individuals, company, lost
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...Patents Patents are generally a set of rights granted to an inventor, or to a person or organisation associated with the inventor, for a fixed period of time. These rights are granted in exchange for disclosure of an invention or idea Patents usually grant a period of exclusivity in which the inventor, or associated individuals/organisations,...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...patents preserve lock-in, but more often it's copy protection, digital rights management (DRM), code signing or other security mechanisms. These security features aren't what we normally think of as security: They don't protect us from some outside threat, they protect the companies from us Microsoft has been planning this sort of...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...patents on technologies to solve these and similar attacks. Find out more on the BitArmor website ( http://www.bitarmor.com/prevent-cold-boot-attacks/ ) for a high level look at how we deal with specific cold boot threats As soon as we can write up detailed information on exactly how we are dealing with the specific cold boot threats in our...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma County Social Security numbers online

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2008-03-13 09:46:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...patents granted after the Land Run of 1889 to last weeks property deals, said Mark Mishoe, chief deputy for County Clerk Carolynn Caudill While the Social Security numbers appear to have been available for several years on the clerk's site, it's been only recently that others have discovered them there are no reports yet of identity theft...
 
Tags: county, county commissioner, county clerks, oklahoma county residents, residents, oklahoma county, social security, court documents, county clerk
 
 
 
 
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Jury rules for Finjan in patent lawsuit against Secure Computing

2008-03-13 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A federal jury has found that Secure Computing infringed on Web security patents held by rival Finjan, although Secure Computing disputed the verdict and said it will appeal if necessary
 
Tags: secure, rival finjan, federal jury, appeal, verdict
 
 
 
 
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UK patent office ordered to accept software patent

2008-03-20 11:30:46 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An appeals court decision that says computer code is patentable is sowing confusion in the UK, where traditionally patents are not generally granted for computer programs
 
Tags: appeals court decision, computer code, computer programs, patentable, patents, confusion
 
 
 
 
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Leveraging VMWare for Firewall Consolidation - MSSPs

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2008-03-02 15:18:59 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...patents when we acquired them at Fortinet. So, no need to use VMWare to do this if its already been done right Well, I'm not so sure of that The other day I was speaking with a Telco that is building out an MSSP offering and they were interested in virtualizing Firewalls so that each customer could have their own firewall in the cloud...
 
Tags: firewall, virtual firewall, ghz cpu, platform, set, ghz, vmware, set specific maximums, single hardware platform
 
 
 
 
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BART Wi-Fi Access Moves Closer in Bay Area

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