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Violating Privacy and Dark Pattern Rules Can be Very Expensive

The feds say that Epic Games, maker of the super popular game, Fortnite, has agreed to pay a fine of more than a half billion dollars to settle the charges. While Fortnite is free, players can buy in-game items like dance moves and costumes. There are more than 400 million users worldwide. The fine breaks […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 16, 2022

Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]

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Justice System Can’t Deal with Airtag Stalking as Class Action Filed

Two women are suing Apple over claims that its AirTags are a stalker’s delight. For only $29, you can stalk anyone you want. One woman says that the stalker put the AirTag in the wheel well of her car. The lawsuit says that she received little help from the cops or from Apple. She says […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 9, 2022

Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]

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Outsource HR Vendor Hit by Cyber Attack – Are You Immune?

Sequoia One is an outsourced HR vendor based in San Francisco that serves more than 500 venture-capital backed firms. According to a letter they sent to clients, an unauthorized party (like, say, perhaps, the Chinese government) accessed its cloud storage account. Data that the unauthorized party (AKA the hacker) accessed includes “name, addresses, dates of […]

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Attack on Power Stations is a New Level of Threat

As tens of thousands of people in Moore County North Carolina are in the dark and cold as a result of attacks on two power stations in the county. The power stations were intentionally targeted by domestic terrorists who targeted gunfire on the substations’ transformers. While the county is not releasing many details and the […]

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