Legal Notes and Practical Analysis

Incidents of cyber squatting, the practice of registering misleading domain names to ensnare surfers or sell them to the relevant company, are on the rise. See the article HERE.

Using the need to track sexual predators as a justification, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith have introduced a bill that would require ISPs to log user activity — and store that information for two years. My question is this: Why not...

Rod Beckstrom, the director of a federal office set up to protect civilian, military and intelligence networks, has submitted his resignation after less than a year in the job. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129218

Democrats reach deal on mortgage relief bill http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_on_bi_ge/mortgages_bankruptcy

IT consultancy Bearingpoint files for bankruptcy To see the whole article, please go to:http://www.information-age.com/channels/it-services/news/1002502/it-consultancy-bearingpoint-files-for-bankruptcy.thtml Regards,Information Agewww.information-age.com

Cyber-crime Criminals Target Customers of Troubled Banks (ComputerWeekly, 03/02/2009) Cyber-security Cybersecurity Gets Increased Funding in Obama’s First Budget (Government Computer News, 03/02/2009) President Barack Obama wants $355 million for the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity efforts in fiscal 2010, according to an overview of his budget...

WSJ.com Mobile Reader user dondiw@gmail.com wanted you to see this: “Obama Stimulus Pours Millions into Cyber Security – Infopackets” Obama Stimulus Pours Millions into Cyber SecurityInfopackets, CanadaAs his administration continues to work on an stimulus plan that can save America’s economy, Obama’s latest course of...

WSJ.com Mobile Reader user dondiw@gmail.com wanted you to see this: “Greene schools target cyber bullying – Charlottesville Daily Progress” Greene schools target cyber bullyingCharlottesville Daily Progress, VACyber bullying is a growing problem nationwide, according to recent research, and it’s an issue that proves complicated and...

“Air Force grounds Cyber efforts – Appeal-Democrat” Air Force grounds Cyber effortsAppeal-Democrat, CABy Nancy Pasternack/Appeal-Democrat They lobbied as hard as they could to get the Air Force’s nascent Cyber Command headquartered at Beale Air Force Base. But after nearly two years of correspondence with military...