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Security News Update for the Week Ending August 11, 2023

Police Don’t Know Who Accessed Data Posted in Error This is somewhat hard to believe while at the same time all too common. Would your company do any better. Police in Northern Ireland posted the entire country’s police roster in response to a freedom of information request – by accident. Even though they took it […]

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The Next Frontier in Fraud – But Not The Last

Zelle is one of the most recent incarnations in peer to peer payments. Peer to peer payments are ones that allow you to directly transfer money from one person’s bank account (the sender) to another’s (the receiver). Competitors to Zelle include PayPal, Venmo, Popmoney and CashApp. The difference with Zelle is that it is owned […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending August 4, 2023

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Will Expire Every five or six years, section 702 of FISA expires. Congress continues to do this because it doesn’t trust the government to restrain itself. Section 702 enables limited bulk data surveillance which some constraints on viewing data of Americans vs. foreigners. In case you haven’t […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 28, 2023

Criminal or Whistleblower? The hacker behind the Football Leaks scandal, Rui Pinto, a 34 year old Portuguese national, currently faces 377 charges for blowing the lid off the tax fraud, corruption and other wrongdoing in the $3 billion European soccer business. One club alone, Manchester City, faced over 100 counts of financial misconduct as a […]

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Quinn Emanuel Law Firm Reports Fifth-Party Data Breach

Law firms getting breached is, unfortunately, no longer big news. Law firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Loeb & Loeb and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher all reported breaches to the California attorney general in July. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner also reported a breach recently. All of these are very large firms. Imagine […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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