Adams County, Wisconsin is now facing a crisis of confidence and likely some lawsuits as well. Why? On March 28, 2018, the county says, it uncovered “questionable activity” on county computer systems. Three months later, in late June, their investigation was complete. The result: 258, 120 people had their data illegally accessed. Data included protected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Koh, who has been involved in many high profile high tech lawsuits such as Apple v. Samsung, gave final approval to a $115 million settlement for damages as a result of the Anthem breach. While this is only one lawsuit – I am sure there are others – it is important if only for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could get interesting. The Australian Telecommunications and other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 would require tech companies to decrypt communications on request and even require tech companies to build back doors into their software if they don’t already have them. Of course, like all governments (think GDPR), the bill does not stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those companies who have customers in California – independent of where the company is located – or are doing business in Europe, you have new privacy regulations to deal with. While California’s law doesn’t go into effect for another 16 months and it is possible that there will be changes to the law before […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given Russia’s and China’s seeming insatiable desire to know everything possible about us, it is reasonable that they would try and target the 2020 Census. Congress has been asking questions about the security of the Census process for the last several years and not getting any answers that they like. We are getting pretty close […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sextortion is the act of convincing vulnerable people, often teenagers, to provide the sextortionist with sexually explicit photographs and videos under the threat of releasing other embarrassing material, such nude pictures that may already privately exist in the victim’s email, text messages or private social media. The attacker does this by convincing the victim that […]
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