Last year the FCC proposed a rule requiring Internet Providers to get your permission before selling your data. The rule was set to go into effect in April. The large ISPs – AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others – didn’t like this rule since it affected their revenue. They said that Facebook and Google didn’t need […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg published a brief on the issue of border searches that was written for them by the international law firm of Morrison Foerster on the subject of border searches. Given that lawyers wrote the piece, their concern is about protecting attorney-client confidential information at the border, but the subject applies to everyone. According to Customs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few days ago I wrote about a public-private partnership between the Russian spy folks and Russian hackers that was uncovered when the Feds indicted two hackers and two Russian spies. In that case, the hackers gave the Russians the data that they wanted and kept and used the rest for themselves. Now there are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A U.S. citizen of Ethiopian heritage was hacked a few years ago by the Ethiopian government here in the U.S. The victim, who goes by the pseudonym of Mr. Kidane to protect his family here and in Ethiopia, is being represented by the EFF, the Jones Day law firm and the law firm Robins Kaplan. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today the Department of Justice announced the indictment of 4 in the 2013 Yahoo breach – three years after it happened. Two of the people indicted are members of the Russian FSB. Under Russian law, the FSB is part of the Russian military and responsible for, among other things, counterespionage. The other two indicted are Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
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