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Banks Can Sue Home Depot, Court Rules

A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that the class action lawsuit filed by banks against Home Depot over Home Depot’s massive 2014 breach may proceed.  The judge ruled that the banks’ allegations of negligence on Home Depot’s part appear to have merit.  That is probably not a great start for Team Home Depot. The […]

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Laptop Vendor Bloatware Confirmed As Security Nightmare

Everyone is familiar with all of that unwanted software that manufacturers are paid to install on laptops that they sell.  For many people, when they get a new computer, they spend the first many hours installing patches and deleting all of those unwanted applications, which many people lovingly call crapware.  Researchers have confirmed that in […]

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More Data is Better – Or Is It?

Talk to Google or Facebook and they will tell you that they never met a piece of information that they did not want to add to their databases.  More information means better profiles;  better profiles mean that they can charge more for ads. But some Silicon Valley firms are rethinking that idea. Silicon Valley startup […]

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7-Zip Flaws Reveal Soft Underbelly of the Software Supply Chain

Do you use 7-Zip?  Do you even know what it is?  One of the challenges that businesses and consumers have is that, like sausage, they often do not know what is in the software that they use.  As a result, they could be diligent about applying patches and still be exposed to hackers. In this […]

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