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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We hear stories about the time it takes to weaponize security patches. This test, by Orca Security, tested a different problem. They wanted to know how long it takes hackers to discover secrets that you leave exposed in your cloud environment. They tested a variety of resources from Github to AWS. The good news is […]
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