Facebook Is Being Sued for Discriminatory Ad Targeting
Housing groups say they were able to create ads that discriminated against mothers, the disabled, and minorities. Continue reading Facebook Is Being Sued for Discriminatory Ad Targeting
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Kaspersky Lab files injunction in court, seeking to counter Trump administration ban
Moscow-based anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in U.S. federal court in hopes of halting the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to ban Kaspersky software from use in federal agencies, CyberScoop has learned. The move comes after Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky announced plans in December to sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who originally launched the ban through a Binding Operational Directive (BOD) on Sept. 13 citing alleged espionage concerns. The motion was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal have all reported in recent months, citing anonymous U.S. intelligence officials, that Russian intelligence agencies have in the past leveraged Kaspersky Lab’s anti-virus engine to remotely steal confidential documents from targeted computers where the software is already installed. Kaspersky Lab has repeatedly and unequivocally denied all wrongdoing. The company continues […]
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A ‘Fortnite’ Cheat Maker Duped Players Into Downloading a Bitcoin Miner
And now he’s being sued. Continue reading A ‘Fortnite’ Cheat Maker Duped Players Into Downloading a Bitcoin Miner
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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