Cybercrime

Gary McKinnon, the alleged NASA hacker, has failed in his last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to have his extradition to the United States quashed. Taiwan Police has swooped down on a ring of cyber-thiefs who had been targeting government and corporate data stores.
A federal grand jury in New Orleans has indicted a Brazilian man on charges he operated a botnet that was used to deliver spam. A 27-year-old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography win.
A European court has intervened in Gary McKinnon's extradition to the United States. The British hacker has been given a temporary reprieve, but still faces extradition later this month.  

 

As the malware threat landscape continues to evolve, hackers are constantly changing techniques to counteract detection technologies vendors develop. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard presents serious legal challenges and risk for retailers. Some emails are important written records you might one day have to rely on in court, says Tamzin Matthew. IT security consultant Jim Reavis may have recently offered a big-time scoop to readers of his blog. Citing unnamed sources, he reported that Symantec is in talks with some of its investors, an indication that the security giant may be considering a return to private status. There has been a steady increase in corporate litigation over the past decade, and those legal proceedings are having an unforeseen impact on IT managers. This trend has been accelerated by the recent changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP).  

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