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Malware
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Health IT Law Blog
Computer viruses in medical devices: who should bear the costs for combatting? FDA issues warning, takes action
Computer virus infections of medical devices continue to be a serious issue, keeping healthcare provider IT departments busy removing malware. (See our October 2012 blog post "Computer viruses on hospital…
The Ethical Investigator
Direct and Indirect Evidence: Learning from Computer Scientists
As investigators, we can't always get exactly to the evidence we want to prove. Sometimes it merely doesn't exist. Often, ethical and legal constraints keep us from being able to…
Cyberblog
Antivirus Software is Not Failproof
Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, an antivirus company, wrote an interesting post discussing the limits of antivirus software. Of particular note is that Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu were all reported to…
The Right Coast
Beyond Stuxnet: massively complex Flame malware ups ante for cyberwar – CSMonitor.com
From what is known now, however, Flame can spread via a USB drive, a Bluetooth device, or other machines on a network. In affected machines, it can wait for certain software programs…
The Right Coast
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level | Wired.com
What the inspectors didn t know was that the answer they were seeking was hidden all around them, buried in the disk space and memory of Natanz s computers. Months…
Data Counsel
Fake Bin Laden Death Videos Contain Malware That Steals PII
The weakest link in our defense to computer security attacks can be our natural curiosity. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning for computer users that the latest…
InsureReinsure
Eighth Circuit Rules That General Liability Insurer Must Defend Claim for Lost Use of Personal Computer Under Both General Liability Policy and Information and Network Technology Errors or Omissions Liability Policy
In late July 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an insurer that issued a General Liability policy and an Information and Network Technology Errors or Omissions Liability…
Health IT Law Blog
Massive cyber attack affects 75,000 computer systems across the world
By Vadim Schick
According to the Washington Post, more than 75,000 computer systems at over 2,500 companies across the world have been hacked in possibly the largest and extremely sophisticated cross-border cyber attack. …
The CPA Desk
Infect My PC? Sure!
By Greg Price
Check out this article one of my colleagues passed it on to me and I couldn’t help but comment on it. Apparently, 409 people clicked on a Google Adwords ad…
Law Practice Tips
Beware of the Dangers of “Drive by” Web Page Infections
By Jim Calloway
The Internet brings great information and access, but it also brings dangers. We've seen viruses, spammers, spyware and computer hijackers. We try to cope with all of these dangers as…