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If you're gonna herd bots, do it from New Zealand!

A judge in New Zealand declined to convict the admitted (guilty plea) botherder of a million-bot botnet, citing the negative consequences a conviction would have on the young man's future prospects. See the story here . Well duh. The whole theory of crime Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:37 AM by Eric Fitzgerald | 0 Comments
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German court bans retention of logged IP addresses

A German court has ruled that a government web site may not retain IP addresses and other personally identifiable information (PII) in their logs for any longer than the user is actually using the site. The judges pointed out that in many cases it was Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:53 AM by Eric Fitzgerald | 1 Comments
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Ensuring that there's no useful data in your logs...

As I wrote about earlier, TorrentSpy, a file-sharing search engine, was ordered by a U.S. magistrate to enable logging on its servers and to subsequently make those logs available to the MPAA, the plaintiff in an illegal file-sharing lawsuit against TorrentSpy. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 2:23 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 0 Comments
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United Kingdom passes EC telecom-logging legislation

To comply with EC telecommunications logging directives (as other EU nations recently have), the UK has passed a law that starting October 1 telecommunications firms must generate and retain logs of landline and mobile communications for one year. http://www.out-law.com/page-8332 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:13 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 0 Comments
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Good List of Regulatory Requirements for Logging

My friend Dr. Tina Bird has put together a good list of regulatory requirements that pertain to logging and log retention. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 10, 2007 1:43 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 4 Comments
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Draft law in Germany may force telcos & ISPs to gather logs; Gmail Germany may shut down as a result

A draft law ( English translation ) being proposed in Germany to enforce the European Mandatory Data Retention Directive of 2006 would require telcos, ISPs, and email service providers to track and retain data necessary to trace and identify the source, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:26 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 1 Comments
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*Not* generating logs is not an option... when you're under subpoena

Working as I do for a company that exists because of copyright, I'm not particularly sympathetic to TorrentSpy, a search engine company that is accused by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) of helping to enable copyright infringement by Read More...
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 2:10 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 1 Comments
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Auditing and the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard

Here is a link to an interesting blog article interpreting the audit requirement of the PCI standard. For reference, here is a link ( pdf ) to the PCI 1.1 Data Security Standard itself. The high-level PCI requirements are listed below. Requirement 10 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:01 AM by Eric Fitzgerald | 1 Comments
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Logs and the US Department of Justice Cybercrime Manual

Source: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/s&smanual2002.htm Here is the most relevant excerpt; highlighting is mine. Records of regularly conducted activity. A memorandum, report, record, or data compilation, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:39 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 1 Comments
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Logs and the Canadian Rules for Electronic Evidence

Source: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/c-5/232082.html , 8/31/2006 Here are two excerpts from the Canadian national laws pertaining to the introduction of business records and electronic records as evidence in courts of law. Business Records Inference where Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:32 PM by Eric Fitzgerald | 0 Comments
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