That's the topic of this Bloomberg Businessweek article. Here's an interesting excerpt: On Saturday, Nov. 30, the hackers had set their traps and had just one thing to do before starting the attack: plan the data’s escape route. As they uploaded exfiltration malware to move stolen credit card numbers—first to staging points spread around the […]
That's the theme of this interesting article by Ashlee Kieler.
The Center for Effective Government has issued Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014. This report grades the 15 federal agencies that receive the most Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requests on their implementation of the Act. The report finds that the Act often is not implemented as Congress intended. Read a […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday named three people to senior posts: (1) Christopher D. Carroll as the Assistant Director and Chief Economist for the Office of Research in the Bureau’s Research, Markets, and Regulations Division; (2) Daniel Dodd-Ramirez as the Assistant Director of Financial Empowerment in the Bureau’s Consumer Education and Engagement Division; and […]
by Paul Alan Levy I heard last week from another lawyer in a Doe case that I am currently litigating about an order from a Philadelphia trial judge, requiring Philly.com, the web site of Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers, to disclose the identifying information of a commenter who, according to the story, had called the head […]
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It may sound like something from House of Cards, but it appears (or it has been alleged, at the very least) that the CIA is now hacking the U.S. Senate. Here's the Post's lede describing the speech on the Senate floor today by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California: The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee […]
At SXSW, by video conference. You can watch the conversation here. The technology is a little glitchy but one can hardly blame him — he's appearing through "seven proxies," notes the ACLU's Ben Wizner, who moderated the discussion — and the content makes up for the image quality.
Public Citizen has released a report analyzing the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in J. McIntyre Machinery Co. v. Nicastro, 131 S. Ct. 2780 (2011), on the ability of people injured by the products of out-of-state and foreign manufacturers to obtain access to the courts to remedy their injuries. Nicastro significantly limited the […]
For a variety of answers, see an empirical study by Alan White and Carolina Reid called Saving Homes? Bankruptcies and Loan Modifications in the Foreclosure Crisis. Here is the abstract: Do homeowner bankruptcy filings work to delay or prevent home foreclosures, and how do they compare to voluntary loan modifications specifically targeted to mortgage relief? […]