The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, a civil suit brought in the District of Arizona by the FTC relating to a cybersecurity breach at Wyndham. To understand why the case matters quite a bit, we need to step back and…
Some readers may have read about the ongoing proposal that SoftBank purchase a controlling interest in Sprint/Nextel. As the Washington Post has reported, the Dish network has made a competing offer to purchase Sprint.Not content with the overt…
I’ve been in Germany all week (at the George C. Marshall Center which, for those who don’t know, is a joint US-Germany military think tank and an altogether wonderful place to visit) so I missed some of the details of the recent arrest of an alleged…
As most readers are aware, in the midst of the national turmoil following the bombings in Boston, the House of Representatives passed a version of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288-127. No entity can…
Einstein 3 is the Federal Government’s expanded system for protecting Federal cyber networks through the inspection of all traffic heading to Federal networks. It is both an intrusion detection and an intrusion prevention system which operates at the…
