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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the things that has always been a barrier for people who’s data was compromised during a breach is what lawyers call “Standing”. Standing derives from Article III of the U.S. Constitution. The courts have said that there are three requirements for “standing” to bring an action against another – Injury in fact, causation […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at Bitdefender say that they have uncovered two vulnerabilities in low cost Chinese cameras. One of the cameras is used in the iDoorbell – which represents a software supply chain issue on top of it. The cameras come from Shenzen Neo Electronics. Researchers suspect that other cameras are affected as well. Using the search […]
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