Recent Postings for "Cyber Security" Area of Expertise.
On February 21, 2013 President Obama took direct action to bolster cyber security. He issued an Executive Order and a Presidential Policy Directive designed to provide a government catalyst to information security across the US Critical Infrastructure.
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President Obama is taking aggressive measures to ensure that the US can preemptive action in the event of a potential cyber strike.
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When the US Justice Department said that a conviction against Osama bin Laden’s driver should be overturned, they set the stage for overturning another conviction – that of al-Qaeda’s online propagandist, Ali al Bahlul.
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A 21-year-old British man was sentenced recently to 12 months in jail for hacking into a Facebook account.
As it turns out, Facebook gets a big “Like” from hackers and cyber criminals around the world.
Here are some of the ways criminals use Facebook:
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Lawrence D. Dietz, Esq., TAL Global’s General Counsel and Managing Director, Information Security, has been appointed to the Cyberspace Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.
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The following comments and tips should be helpful to customers as they prepare to negotiate with IT vendors, especially with cloud services vendors. TAL Global does not provide legal advice, but we are delighted to work with your General Counsel to assist in the process or help with vendor contract problems.
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Mr. Johnathan Tal, TAL Global’s President and CEO, and the company’s General Counsel and Managing Director, Information Security, Mr. Larry Dietz will both lead Peer2Peer Sessions at the upcoming RSA Conference 2012, February 27 to March 2 the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
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In August we published a commentary on Project Shady Rat, a research project orchestrated by McAfee (now part of Intel). We recently attended a meeting of the Silicon Valley Information Security Association, hosted by McAfee and where the features speaker was Vincent Weather, Sr VP of Engineering & McAfee Labs who previously was a senior research with Symantec.
Vincent had some interesting things to say which I would like to pass along.
Former top Presidential adviser, Richard Clarke, said the United States’ economic system is vulnerable to a retaliatory cyberattack should the United States attack a country such as Iran or North Korea.
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