Ex-Cisco Employee Convicted for Deleting 16K Webex Accounts
The insider threat will go to jail for two years after compromising Cisco’s cloud infrastructure. Continue reading Ex-Cisco Employee Convicted for Deleting 16K Webex Accounts
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ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
Watchdog group said company has violated the Illinois BIPA and ‘will end privacy as we know it’ without intervention. Continue reading ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
Liverpool Voyeur Used IM-RAT to Video Women at Home
The case highlights the rising issue of stalkerware, which has reached epidemic proportions. Continue reading Liverpool Voyeur Used IM-RAT to Video Women at Home
FBI Taps Apple to Unlock Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
It’s unclear yet whether the Cupertino giant will assist, given past history of court battles over such incidents. Continue reading FBI Taps Apple to Unlock Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
NASA Says $700 Million in Rocket Failures Caused by Fraudster Company
Aluminum supplier Sapa Profiles, Inc. will pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defense, and other victims of its fraud scheme. Continue reading NASA Says $700 Million in Rocket Failures Caused by Fraudster Company
Facebook settles after 14-year-old sues over nude image reposting
The alleged extortionist, still facing charges, reposted the image to shame sites multiple times. Why didn’t Facebook use hashes to stop it? Continue reading Facebook settles after 14-year-old sues over nude image reposting
These Researchers Played ‘Egg Roulette’ by Exploding Eggs for a Court Case
Perhaps the only time scientists have blown up eggs in a microwave on purpose. Continue reading These Researchers Played ‘Egg Roulette’ by Exploding Eggs for a Court Case
Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
The exchange lost a legal battle and now Bitcoin’s tax problem is coming to a head. Continue reading Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Cryptocurrency Traders to the IRS
CareFirst customers granted right to sue over 2014 cyberattack
The second-most-powerful court in America has ruled that customers of Health Insurance provider CareFirst can sue the company for a breach that revealed personal identifiable information in 2014. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found on Tuesday that CareFirst, which serves over a million people in the D.C, Maryland and Virginia area, placed its customers at an increased risk of identity theft in 2014 when personally identifiable information was stolen from the company by cybercriminals. This decision reversed a district court decision from August 2016 that had dismissed a class action suit against CareFirst on the grounds that “merely having one’s personal information stolen in a data breach is insufficient to establish standing to sue the entity from whom the information was taken,” and declaring that the customers “have not made the required showing, the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the case and will grant CareFirst’s […]
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Impression Products V. Lexmark International: A Victory For Common Sense
A few months ago we reported on a case coming before the United States Supreme Court that concerned recycled printer cartridges. Battling it out were Impression Products, a printer cartridge recycling company, and Lexmark, the printer manufacturer. At issue was a shrinkwrap licence on inkjet cartridges — a legal agreement deemed to have been activated by the customer opening the cartridge packaging — that tied a discounted price to a restriction on the cartridge’s reuse.
It was of concern to us because of the consequences it could have had for the rest of the hardware world, setting a potential precedent …read more
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