With almost no risk, why spend money on security?

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=18384

Michaels Breach: Who’s Liable?

May 23, 2011 by admin

Tracy Kitten reports:

…. What role should merchants play, when it comes to ensuring transactional security, and how should financial institutions, as card-issuers, fall into the fray?

Attorney Randy Sabett, partner and co-chair of the Internet and Data Protection practice at law firm SNR Denton LLP, says the liability lines are often blurred and hard to define after a breach. Despite that card fraud usually occurs outside banking institutions’ control, banks and credit unions, as the card issuers, usually absorb losses and expenses associated with breach recovery.

“There is a lot of entanglement in the credit card industry,” Sabett says. “It all goes back to the contract. It’s often hard to pin anything down in the contract. But the way most of these contracts are written, the retailers aren’t liable.”

Read more on BankInfoSecurity.com

This is temporary. When the technology can be shrunk to an injectable RFID chip, we will no longer need a black box. Meanwhile, they make a great target for my Ethical Hackers.

Mandatory Automotive Black Boxes May Be On the Way

"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to announce a new regulation requiring all vehicles to contain a 'black box.' Not only that, but the devices would be designed to make it difficult (possibly illegal) to modify what information these devices collect or to disbale them even though the courts have ruled that the owner of the vehicle owns the data. The courts have also ruled that authorities may access that data (to what degree and whether a warrant is necessary depends on the state)."

Gary Alexander provides a cautionary article for lawyers...

Attorneys Who Work in the 'Cloud' May Get ABA Wake-Up Call With Proposed Rules

The Connecticut Law Tribune

The ABA's Commission on Ethics 20/20 has issued proposed changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct designed to remind lawyers of the need to safeguard client confidentiality when engaging in "cloud computing," sparking concern nationwide from small firms and solo practitioners.

An easy revenue source?

http://torrentfreak.com/hurt-locker-makers-target-record-breaking-24583-bittorrent-users-110523/

Hurt Locker Makers Target Record Breaking 24,583 BitTorrent Users

March last year the law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver imported the mass litigation “pay up or else” anti-piracy scheme to the United States.

The initial customers of the lawyers – who are also known as the U.S. Copyright Group – were relatively unknown indie film producers. But this changed when the makers of the Oscar-winning Hurt Locker (Voltage Pictures) joined up and sued 5,000 alleged file-sharers.

Voltage Pictures always threatened that this figure was just the start, and it now turns out that they were speaking the truth. In their quest to recoup their claimed losses, the studio has now added nearly 20,000 new defendants to the lawsuit, bringing the total up to 24,583.

Because backups are good.

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MailStore Home – One Of the Easiest Free Email Backup Tools Available [Windows]

MailStore Home (ver.4.2) is a Windows only freeware that is a single stop backup and archiving solution for all your email accounts scattered across the digital world. In brief, MailStore allows you to create a central storehouse of all your emails from all your accounts and makes it searchable so that you always have ready access to a buried but important email.