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]New Jersey enacted a new law which requires data encryption (see bill information) as a response to the health care data breaches – I assume like Anthem. The bill is short, only 4 pages, but, at least to me, that does not make things very clear. The bill covers health insurance carriers, but then defines […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USAToday is reporting that the hacking of the State Department’s email went way farther than has been reporting up until now. The State Department has been fighting to get the hackers out of their unclassified email system for months now, even enlisting the help of private contractors and the NSA – to no avail. CNN […]
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