An upstate NY State woman sued the DEA for creating a fake Facebook profile of her, using pictures of her young son and niece as well as suggestive pictures of her to try and lure drug dealers (see link and picture below). Authorities had taken her phone after she was arrested for her role in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written before about Verizon (and AT&T) supercookies (see here and here, among others). Briefly, supercookies are tracking devices that Verizon adds to your web traffic from your phone after the traffic leaves your phone but before it reaches the intended web site. Verizon uses this traffic to figure out what sites you visit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There has been a cat and mouse game between the movie studios and hackers since there were digital versions of movies. The encryption that was on the original movie DVDs, CSS (content scrambling system), was cracked in a matter of a few days. For Blu-Ray and HD DVDs, they created a new system, AACS (Advanced […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Eric Goldman (Santa Clara University Asst Professor, School Of Law) wrote a blog post (see here) and a much longer paper (see here) on the subject of businesses trying to ban negative consumer reviews. New York and California have laws that prohibit the enforcement of contract clauses that try to stop consumers from writing negative […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine has an interesting article on home and small office backups (see article). Many “private cloud” backups allow you to backup your files to a device on your local network and access your backups anywhere you have access to the Internet. Sometimes, that was not even intended, but due to misconfiguration or bad default […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI is warning people to be wary of fake federal web sites which both take their PII and also steal money from them. The web sites rank high on the search engine page, ask for PII and collect a fee. Sometimes they ask people to send their birth certificate or other information. People are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]