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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 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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Rackspace Hosted Exchange Still Offline Over ‘Security Issue’

In the face of a security incident that Rackspace is being very opaque about, Rackspace’s stock is down 15% today. Rackspace is still not providing much information about what the hell is going on. Thousands of Rackspace customers globally continue to deal with the outage, which Rackspace says is related to a security incident (whatever […]

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