BAE Partnership Offering Free Open Source Software To Public; Leigh Palmer Comments
BAE Systems and the Open Information Security Foundation are partnering to provide open source software to the public free of charge, BAE announced Monday. The company will provide some of its intellectual property to the foundation, said Leigh Palmer, vice president of advanced programs for BAE’s IT cybersecurity solutions business. BAE is the first systems [...]
Just in time for Cyber Monday, as millions of Americans are expected to make holiday purchases with the click of a mouse, Attorney General Eric Holder announced stepped-up efforts to shut down sites selling counterfeit products. Working with the Justice Department’s criminal division, the Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. attorneys’ offices around the [...]
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A 24-year-old Texas man in a father-son team selling pirated software through the Internet was last week sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role for violating criminal copyright infringement laws. Todd Alan Cook was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $599,771. He pleaded guilty March 11, 2010, to criminal copyright [...]
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Jordan Takes Strides to Battle Piracy, Intellectual Property Rights Breaches
October 27, 2010 No CommentJordan’s capital of Amman has hosted its first-ever First Regional IPR and Cyber Crime Conference, highlighting the progress of Arab countries in intellectual property rights protection, and exploring recommendations for governments and companies on how reduce software piracy. Two-thirds of Middle East companies are at risk of using unlicensed or pirated software, 67 percent of [...]
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The Economic Consequences of Cyber Attacks: An Interview with Scott Borg
February 15, 2010 1 CommentThe threats emanating from cyberspace are becoming consistent features in the news. Earlier this year, Google revealed it and dozens of other companies had come under cyber attack. Cyber criminals have stolen millions of dollars and the intellectual property of America’s leading corporations are at risk. Scott Borg, director and CEO of the nonprofit U.S. [...]
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