According to this report, Network Solutions in April seized over 700 domain names relating to Syria. Among these were sites used by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Assad hacker group that has achieved some notoriety for taking over the AP’s…
ABOVE: Computerlinks FZCOHQ, DSO Building, Dubai The Dubai subsidiary of Munich-based Computerlinks recently agreed to pay $2.8 million dollars to the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) to settle charges that the Dubai subsidiary exported sophisticated Internet surveillance software to…
Odebrecht Construction, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Brazilian firm Odebrecht S.A., filed suit on Monday in federal court asking the court to declare as unconstitutional a Florida law which prohibits the award of state and local contracts to companies…
A recent story from Bloomberg indicates that California-based NetApp, which manufactures and sells network storage solutions, is under investigation by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in connection with one of NetApp’s storage devices winding up in Syria. The…
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) added three parties to the Entity List and imposed license requirements for exports, re-exports and in country transfers to these parties for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations, i.e.,…