Archive for 2011/08/27
Ever since security giant RSA was hacked last March, anti-virus researchers have been trying to get a copy of the malware used for the attack to study its method of infection. But RSA wasn’t cooperating, nor were the third-party forensic experts the company hired to investigate the breach
Posted: 2011/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionThis week Finnish security company F-Secure discovered that the file had been under their noses all along.
Police in Manhattan recently arrested a shopworker in Chinatown for selling certain “counterfeit” items, “including Louis Vuitton and Burberry handbags.” Except… this wasn’t just a case of selling cheaper versions of the real things, this was a case where the items were supposed to be fakes
Posted: 2011/08/27 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, EnforcementThat’s because they were being sold at Fook On Sing Funeral Supplies, and they were cardboard objects designed specifically for traditional Chinese funerals, where it’s customary to burn certain items as “symbolic gifts to the deceased.”
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110825/14510115686/nyc-arrests-stop-dead-chinese-infringing.shtml
RealNetworks Destroying Dutch Webmaster’s Life Because He Linked To A Reverse Engineered Alternative
Posted: 2011/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, LitigationRealNetworks sued a Dutch webmaster, Hilbrand Edskes, not because he was hosting or distributing the software, but because he had a link to the software on a webpage he maintains that lists a variety of freeware programs.
Paul Vixie gives a clear and concise explanation of why PROTECT IP is a problem
Posted: 2011/08/27 in Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public PolicyCreator of a variety of key Unix and internet software, he’s still most known for his work on BIND, “the most widely used DNS software on the internet.”
