Publications from William S. Hein & Co. Inc. February 26, 2008
Second Edition
Stop Criminals from Using Your Website As a Gateway to Fraud
“The Web has exploded as medium for commerce and communication, but it’s also become a favorite attack vector for criminals. And while the bad guys are motivated by money, the damage they wreak transcends the balance sheet: loss of reputation, lawsuits, loss of investor confidence and sometimes crippling liability.”
“Click below to get a new whitepaper from FinJan that highlights the new techniques hackers use to infiltrate your networks, with critical steps you can take to prevent them by using real-time content inspection technologies.”
From: CIO Security Alert, February 23, 2008
User Created Lists on WorldCat.org Made Available as RSS Feeds
From: OCLC Updates. February 26, 2008.
WorldCat.org users who want to keep tabs on lists of items created by fellow users can now do so without having to return to the site: Public WorldCat lists are available as RSS feeds that can be monitored using any RSS-capable service or software.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an information format used by news-media sites, blogs and other Web services that are frequently updated. RSS feeds typically carry brief summaries of the information currently available at a specific Web location, so you can see what’s new without having to view the site in a browser.
Superior Direct and Cross Examination: Demonstrations from Trial Masters
The American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and The South Carolina Bar Present:
Superior Direct and Cross-Examination: Demonstrations from Trial Masters of the ABA Criminal Justice Section and the S.C. Bar*
8:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Friday, April 4, 2008
American Libraries Direct February 20, 2008
News from the American Library Association:
House allows warrantless wiretaps law to expire
A dramatic showdown between House Republicans and Democrats February 14 has led to Congress beginning a one-week break without sending any surveillance legislation to the White House. The result is the February 16 expiration of the Protect America Act, which since its enactment in August 2007 has permitted the National Security Agency to eavesdrop without a court order on foreign communications, including phone calls and email exchanges, between someone “reasonably believed to be outside the United States” and a person on U.S. soil, as well as communications traveling to or from U.S. libraries…
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter February 22, 2008
Ten Top Stories:
Legal Ethics
News From the American Association of Law Libraries
From the AALL E-Newsletter, February 2008.*
David Pogue to be Keynote Speaker at AALL Annual Meeting
I am very pleased to announce that David Pogue, the personal-technology columnist for The New York Times, will come to Portland this July as the keynote speaker for the Opening General Session at the AALL Annual Meeting. Each week Pogue contributes a print column, online column, and an online video for the Times. His daily blog, Pogue’s Posts, is the Times’ most popular blog. He is also an Emmy award-winning technology correspondent for CBS News, a frequent guest on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and a regular on CNBC.
Information Security Update: February 21, 2008
The following is some updated information that we thought might be of interest. This is not a separate issue of the Newsletter:
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF CYBER SECURITY AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION CYBER INFORMATION BULLETIN
DATE ISSUED:
U.S. Supreme Court: Riegel v. Medtronic 06-179
Argued December 4, 2007 – Decided February 20, 2008
…”Of Wednesday’s pre-emption cases, Riegel v. Medtronic may have the broadest impact. The Court ruled against the estate of Charles Riegel, who died after a catheter made by Medtronic malfunctioned during heart surgery.”
“Riegel sued in federal court, invoking New York state common law to argue for liability and damages. Like lower courts, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Medical Device Amendments of 1976 specifically preclude states from imposing their own requirements on the makers of federally regulated medical devices.”
U.S. Supreme Court: Danforth v. Minnesota
Decision Date: February 20, 2008:
DANFORTH v. MINNESOTA CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MINNESOTA
No. 06-8273. Argued October 31, 2007-Decided February 20, 2008