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Making Informed Choices about the Deep, Dark Web
A majority of Internet traffic and online data lives beneath the surface of the Web as we know it. In the darkest, hidden recesses of the Internet, individuals engage in illicit activities and cybercrimes, but also in substantial activism, journalism and sensitive communications. Hackers operate anonymously and in great numbers in this environment. In various secretive forums, they discuss techniques, software vulnerabilities and exploits, and tools of the trade. Hackers and other bad actors also offer their services for hire, and operate marketplaces that sell software vulnerabilities, hacking tools, corporate trade secrets, and stolen financial, health care and other sensitive personal information. This environment is also used to host command-and-control servers that direct denial of service (DoS) botnet attacks and communicate with malware residing in corporate networks.
Law enforcement agencies, cybersecurity service providers, and individual companies are more actively operating in this veiled ecosystem to proactively identify specific threats and vulnerabilities, and to search for any indication that organizations' confidential information has been exposed on the Internet. This trend has been prompted, in part, by an increasing push for proactive threat intelligence practices by regulatory agencies.
There is also a growing use of this environment to circumvent increasing surveillance and censorship by governments worldwide, most commonly by human rights activists, whistleblowers, journalists, and businesses with highly-sensitive information.
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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?