As if businesses didn’t already face enough cyber threats lurking out there in the digital world, another one has recently emerged – and, wow, could it do major damage! Late last year, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began selling the new .xxx top-level domain to owners of pornographic web sites. The [Continue Reading]
In the last decade, e-commerce has gone from being almost nonexistent to completely mainstream, with what seems to be an infinite number of cyber retail web sites. Prior to the Internet, it was rare that retailers and consumers using paper catalogs would fall victim to marketing-by-mail fraud. But with the advent of Internet retail commerce, [Continue Reading]
In the ever-evolving world of cyber crime, it’s important for corporate directors and officers to consider carefully the question of whether they should notify shareholders and potential shareholders of corporate cyber risk. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) thinks that, in terms of public companies, cyber attacks and hacking attempts should be reported to shareholders [Continue Reading]
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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