There have always been questions about connections between Gene Kaspersky’s company and the Russian spy agencies like the FSB, but not necessarily any hard proof. Last month, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to remove Kaspersky anti virus software without any real explanation. Some thought it was as retribution while others thought it was over-reaction. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember when then Austrian law student Max Schrems started fighting a battle over privacy with Facebook. Now probably neither you nor I would want to pick a fight with Facebook’s legal team, but Max, a law STUDENT, said, hey, what the heck. That battle wound up at the CJEU – The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: In light of the title of this post, the Irish data protection commissioner, Helen Dixon, says that her office is investigating “next steps” in investigating Yahoo. While I don’t think the U.S. will do anything more than slap Yahoo on the wrist for allowing three billion identities to be compromised, the EU generally takes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Courts have been pretty divided as to whether people can be forced to unlock their phones or computers and whether unlocking your phone can be considered forcing you to incriminate you in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At this point, the general theory is that if your device is locked with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many employees use consumer grade, unmanaged cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive as part of their work. This is sometimes called BYOC for Bring Your Own Cloud. It is convenient, but is it a good idea for the business? Loss/theft of intellectual property – One of the obvious risks of BYOC is the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you will remember back in mid 2014 that Lenovo added some software called Visual Discovery by Superfish to hundreds of thousands of computers. The purpose of Visual Discovery is to “help” you by intercepting your browser communications and either insert ads into your web traffic or even redirect you to web sites that […]
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