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Intellectual Property Protection

- 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.

Secrets of a Successful Self-Assessment

- 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.

Document Security: Protecting Physical and Electronic Content

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

New WTC Plans Found in Trash Can

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

Recent Prosecutions Reveal China's Network of Spies

- 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.

No Document Security Required, Says Contractor of Canada's Counterterrorism Center

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

Canadian Counterterrorism Building Plans Found in Garbage

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

Research Team Breaks Popular Disk Encryption Technologies

- 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.

Campus Data Breaches on the Rise

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

Intellectual property

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

What They Know Can Hurt You

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

The New Forensics: Investigating Corporate Fraud and the Theft of Intellectual Property

- 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.

Copyright

- 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)