Site Map - Proprietary Information Protection

04/29/2008 - The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, an interagency mechanism created to coordinate federal intellectual-property-theft investigative efforts, has not achieved its mission, says a Government Accountability Office report.

04/29/2008 - Contractors that handle classified materials must self-assess to ensure that they meet government standards. These tips reveal how to get support from the staff being evaluated.

04/27/2008 - Document security has evolved with technology, but the most critical element is still the human one.

04/18/2008 - A homeless man Thursday found floor diagrams for the New York City's planned Freedom Tower dumped in a street-side garbage can.

04/04/2008 - Intelligence officials warn China has recruited a vast network of spies to gather confidential information on U.S. military technology as well as private corporate technology.

03/21/2008 - The contractor building Canada's new counterterrorism facility did not have to follow any industrial security requirements despite the sensitive nature of its work.

03/20/2008 - No word yet whether the government will have to revise the building's plans for security reasons.

02/22/2008 - By using a simple blast of cold air, researchers found they could freeze a computer's encryption keys and use them to access its contents.

02/13/2008 - A new report finds that computer security incidents at college campuses increased in 2007.

12/05/2007 - (LeJeune v. Coin Acceptors, Inc., Maryland Court of Appeals, No. 111, 2004)

11/29/2007 - Companies can follow these steps to categorize and protect confidential information from theft by insiders.

11/29/2007 - One fascinating chapter explores the disposition of a bank account dormant since the Holocaust and how forensic investigators cracked the case 60 years after the fact. It describes how a large group of investigators went to Switzerland to determine the beneficiaries of dormant World War II-era Swiss bank accounts. The chapter details methodology used to retrieve documents and to discover what was hidden and who was entitled to it.

11/16/2007 - A federal appeals court has ruled that file-sharing software, such as Grokster, does not infringe on the copyright of entertainment providers. In its ruling, the court noted that new technology always disrupts established markets but that "time and market forces" often balance the interests of the various players. MGM has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to hear the case. (MGM et al v. Grokster, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 03-55894, 2004)