“Data Breaches: What The Underground World of “Carding” Reveals”
Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 375
Archive for April, 2009
New Law Review Article (as seen on cybercrime.gov)
Posted by Matt on April 21, 2009
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RSA 2009 Update
Posted by Matt on April 20, 2009
Tonight the RSA conference gets underway with the vendor exposition.
My topics/priorities to grill the vendors about are:
1- new information ownership paradigms
2- risk assessment
3- cleaning up legacy access entitlements
If you visit this site due to seeing my feeble advertisement at RSA (URL on my backpack!) please add this site to your Reader and visit again. This blog is quite new and will be updated with a lot of content over the coming months.
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What happened to the SEC?
Posted by Matt on April 15, 2009
Tonight Professor Donald Langevoort from Georgetown University Law Center lectured at William Mitchell College of Law on the culpability of the SEC for missteps contributing to the recent financial maelstrom.
In very short summary, he pointed to three factors that contributed to the SEC’s inability to detect the causes of the financial meltdown:
1- Complexity of the underlying financial instruments and the lack of specialized expertise within the SEC
2- Political pressures preventing heavy-handed enforcement actions
3- Resource constraints within the SEC
The following information was originally posted on the website of William Mitchell College of Law, www.wmitchell.edu
http://tinyurl.com/c66w4p
After warnings and investigations, the Securities and Exchange Commission failed to detect a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. What went wrong? Professor Donald Langevoort, Georgetown Law Center professor and former SEC special counsel, will explore problems with the SEC and outline a new vision for the agency, one in which it expands beyond reactive enforcement into a “financial intelligence agency” that has the capacity to keep up with the changes that are rapidly occurring in the world of finance.
Professor Donald C. Langevoort, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission special counsel and current Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will analyze the current financial crisis.
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Duty to Monitor
Posted by Matt on April 2, 2009
I’m currently working on answering the question: What is the duty of corporate directors to monitor?
I’m asking (and answering) the question at a high level, irrespective of more detailed duties to maintain confidentiality of information, including privacy of consumer information. Corporate directors are held to a duty of care and are protected by the business judgment rule. So with that as a starting point, my research begins…..more to come.
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