Digital Currency Revolution

US Government Suspects Shaun Bridges Of Additional Bitcoin Theft In Silk Road Case

Feb 25, 2016 05:57 am UTC| Digital Currency Law

In response to a motion for detention hearing filed by Shaun Bridges, the corrupt Silk Road investigator, the US government has said that it suspects Bridges to have been involved in additional thefts from the darkweb...

Crowd-sourced funding: Australia needs to learn from Italy's mistakes

Feb 25, 2016 04:49 am UTC| Law

Australia can learn from Italys mistake in limiting companies that can access crowd-sourced funding, as the government examines changes to the Corporations Act. The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Bill...

Big four accounting firms avoid scrutiny in multinational tax avoidance

Feb 25, 2016 04:38 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

The Senate Inquiry into corporate tax avoidance is due to hand down its final report by the end of this week. One of the lesser-mentioned groups appearing before 2015s Senate hearings are Australias big four accounting...

What happens when you have to recall Mars bars from across 55 countries?

Feb 24, 2016 15:21 pm UTC| Law Business

Confectioner Mars has ordered a huge recall of fun size Mars, Snickers and Milky Way bars after a customer discovered a small piece of plastic in a Snickers bar in Germany. The plastic was traced back to a faulty machine...

Passwords, privacy and protection: can Apple meet FBI's demand without creating a 'backdoor'?

Feb 24, 2016 14:44 pm UTC| Technology Law

The San Bernardino terrorist suspect Syed Rizwan Farook used an iPhone 5c, which is now in the possession of the FBI. The iPhone is locked. The FBI wants Apple to help unlock it, presumably so they can glean additional...

Cyberwar is here to stay

Feb 24, 2016 14:41 pm UTC| Technology Law

Last week, The New York Times revealed that the Obama administration had prepared a cyberattack plan to be carried out against Iran in the event diplomatic negotiations failed to limit that countrys nuclear weapons...

FBI vs Apple: giving up security and privacy could hurt us all

Feb 24, 2016 08:48 am UTC| Law Technology

You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide is an argument that is used often in the debate about surveillance. The latest incarnation of that debate is currently taking place in the case of the US government...