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Massachusetts Attorney General announces opening of new computer forensics lab
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- USA
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- September 22 2009
In a press release issued last week, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced the opening of a "new, state-of-the-art Computer Forensics Lab in Boston" as part of the Attorney General's Cyber Crime Initiative
Incident(s) of the week: double feature
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- USA
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- October 1 2009
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently disclosed a data breach that exposed information on 160,000 women, including the Social Security Numbers of 114,000
Bill to narrow Red Flags Rules moves forward
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- USA
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- October 20 2009
It appears that certain groups, such as the American Bar Association (ABA), may be partially successful in their efforts to convince Congress to narrow the scope of the FTC Red Flags Rules, which are currently scheduled to go into effect on November 1
FTC announces delay in Red Flags enforcement until June 1, 2010
- Foley Hoag LLP
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- USA
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- October 30 2009
Two days before they were scheduled to go into effect, and on the same day that a federal judge ruled that lawyers should be excluded from enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it was delaying enforcement of its Red Flags Rule until June 1, 2010
IRS in discussions with Swiss bank UBS over identification of bank clients suspected of tax evasion
- Foley Hoag LLP
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- Switzerland, USA
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- August 5 2009
On July 13, a federal judge in Miami granted a joint motion to stay an evidentiary hearing that was to be held as a result of a petition from the United States that the Swiss bank UBS be compelled to disclose the names of 52,000 American clients who were suspected of tax evasion
Secret Service and Europe plan a cybercrime task force
- Foley Hoag LLP
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- Italy, USA
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- July 20 2009
According to recent reports from the Wall Street Journal and Computerworld, on June 30 the United States Secret Service, the Italian police and Italian postal service reached an agreement for the establishment of an international task force to fight cybercrime, including identity theft and computer hacking
Incident of the week: ever-growing breach involving passwords for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink and ComCast
- Foley Hoag LLP
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- USA
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- October 8 2009
What started out as an incident involving the leak of 10,000 user names and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts continues to grow, both in terms of users and companies affected
