While the details of this are interesting, what is more important is thinking about all of the contracts that you sign. This is a legal battle that goes back several years. In one corner is Fiserv, the Fortune 200 +/- financial services software behemouth. In the other corner is Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple has always said that they are privacy focused and they usually are except when they are not. Here is a case where they are and if you do email marketing, it is going to spell trouble. Version 15 of the iPhone, Mac and Watch OSes are coming out on September 20th. For users of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IBM’s security arm, X-Force, released their latest Cloud Security Threat Landscape report for Q2 2020 to Q2 2021. They said that two out of three breached cloud environments observed by them would likely have been prevented by more robust hardening of systems, such as better software security practices (called policies) and better patching. They also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security company Imperva says that almost all companies have internal databases with known vulnerabilities. The average vulnerable database has 26 publicly disclosed flaws. More than half of them are rated Critical or high severity. They collected this data over the past FIVE YEARS. While being internal does make it slightly harder for the hackers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Provides Customer IP Address to Swiss Police While police all over the world complain about the universe going dark on them, that is only true to an extent. Proton maintains no logs, but they can capture data in real time. In this case they received an order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice, […]
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