Tag Archives: Online Security

New gTLDs Raise Data Security Concerns

Photo of Craig A. HoffmanBy Craig A. Hoffman on Posted in Online Privacy
Authored by: David A. Einhorn and Alan Pate ICANN is well on its way to the launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) with the first ones being approved as early as April 23rd.  The handful of TLDs currently in use, such as “.com”, “.org”, and “.edu”, may soon be joined by over 1000 gTLDs … Continue Reading

Senate Takes Up Cybersecurity Bill: Can National Security Trump Politics This Close to the Election? Part 2

By William Weber on Posted in Cybersecurity, Federal Legislation
Yesterday we asked: Can National Security Trump Politics This Close to the Election? The answer is looking more and more like “no”. Having failed to reach agreement with his Republican counterpart on limiting debate and consideration of amendments (of which there are now 167) to the bill, last night Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed … Continue Reading

Senate Takes Up Cybersecurity Bill: Can National Security Trump Politics This Close to the Election?

By William Weber on Posted in Cybersecurity, Federal Legislation
That is the $64,000 question. This being Washington, DC, it’s more likely a multi-million dollar question, and the answer is unclear. The Senate voted 84-11 last Thursday to end debate on a procedural motion that allows a revised bill, S. 3414, sponsored by Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (D-CT) to be … Continue Reading

Internet Banking Authentication Security Procedures Found Commercially Unreasonable

Photo of Craig A. HoffmanBy Craig A. Hoffman on Posted in Financial Privacy, Identity Theft, Online Privacy
It is a common scenario—a company’s computer system becomes infected with some variant of the Zeus Trojan with a key logger that sends key strokes out to a command and control server operated by a criminal. The criminal searches the key strokes to find login credentials to that company’s Internet bank account, which are used … Continue Reading
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