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Practice Tip: What You Need to Know About Fighting Spyware and Adware
While obvious security threats like fast-spreading worms have a tendency to garner news headlines, other stealthy security risks threaten law firms and other businesses every day. An increasing amount of spyware and adware programs have the ability to facilitate the disclosure of business information and risk privacy, confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. Law firms ' like other corporations ' usually accumulate a vault of information that could cause serious problems if it were shared with the wrong contacts or, even worse, stolen. Spyware's evolution from simple cookies to a range of sophisticated user-tracking systems has left many businesses without the control over their proprietary data and operations.
A recent survey by IT industry analysts IDC identified spyware as the fourth greatest threat to enterprise security.
Despite its elusive nature, adware and spyware vary in both prevalence and impact. In some instances, these programs may perform innocuous activity such as keeping track of Web sites visited for advertising purposes, with little impact other than consumption of resources. Other times, these programs will perform overtly malicious activity, such as logging key strokes and exporting sensitive data. If left unattended or unnoticed, they have the potential to wreak havoc on computers and networks by tying up system resources and making computers completely inoperable.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?