Google is facing a class action lawsuit for, the plaintiffs say, selling your data. The law firm that filed the case knows a bit about these kind of lawsuits. The firm, Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP has previously won settlements in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. The were part of the team […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First, what are cookies? For those who don’t know, they are small text files, often encrypted, placed on your phone or computer by web sites so that they can track your actions. Cookies come in two flavors. FIRST PARTY cookies are cookies placed on your device by the website that you are visiting. THIRD PARTY […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In a fight the likes of which we have not seen since the battle between Microsoft and the DoJ that ended around 20 years ago, the Justice Department sued Google this week, accusing it of using its market dominance to hobble its rivals. Just to be clear from the beginning, I am not a huge […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend, Google suffered an outage that lasted about 4 hours. (See Google Appstatus Dashboard) The good news is that the outage happened on a Sunday afternoon because that reduced the impact of the outage. Next time it could happen on a Monday morning instead. The outage took down virtually every Google service at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last Week Microsoft Announced Microsoft Azure Sentinel, a cloud based Security Information and Event Management System (SIEM) and a Threat Hunting and Analysis Service called Microsoft Threat Experts. As Ray and I discussed on a recent video, available on Youtube, the best outcome of that announcement is if Google and Amazon make a similar announcement. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
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