By Sydney White, Jim Halpert, Vincent Sanchez and Steven R Phillips Cyber attacks by both private actors and nation states against US critical infrastructure and individual communications users are on the rise. In Washington, DC, policymakers are increasing their focus on cyber threats on multiple fronts. While in recent days lawmakers have been somewhat distracted […]
By John A Merrigan, Lawrence E Levinson and Sydney M White Online espionage has become a common threat for US corporations. FBI director Robert Mueller said: ‘There are only two types of companies — those that have been hacked and those that will be.’ The problem for companies is serious and goes beyond espionage by competitors and foreign […]
By Gina Durham Websites contain a wealth of information. Unfortunately, the human internet users you hope are accessing your site are not the only ones attracted to it. Automated tools, frequently referred to as spiders, bots and screen scrapers, may be crawling your company website too. Given the potential of the internet to consolidate and […]
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (Committee) has released the recommendations from its inquiry into the Corporations Legislation Amendment (Derivative Transactions) Bill 2012 (Cth) (Bill). The Committee was tasked with inquiring into and reporting on the Bill. It received submissions from stakeholders and has released six recommendations based on those submissions and […]