As has been predicted, in a court filing from May 2016, the DoJ authorized the cops to “depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the subject premises during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if things weren’t bad enough for Marissa Mayer and Yahoo after the announcement of losing 500 million user records and the very negative article in the NY Times last week about how they treated security, now there is a new revelation. Supposedly, Yahoo wrote custom software to search all emails in real time for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A small New England retailer learned about ransomware the hard way. After an employee clicked on a link, that system was infected with Cryptowall. The malware encrypted, among other files, the company’s accounting software. The accounting software did not live on that user’s computer; it lived on the network, but since that user had access […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times published an interesting piece on the Yahoo breach. The Times says that 6 years ago Yahoo, Google and a number of other tech companies were hacked by the Chinese. That is where the similarity ends, according to the Times. At Google, co-founder Sergey Brin took the hack personally. Google hired hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote about 21st Century Oncology in March (see post here) when the FBI came knocking on their door. The result? 2.2 million records compromised. At that time they said that they likely did not have enough insurance to cover the costs of the breach. Fast forward six months. Law360 is reporting that Charter Oak […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were not paranoid before, you may be now. According to a lawsuit filed last month, the Golden State Warrior’s app turns on your phone’s microphone in order to figure out where the owner is, in order to serve ads to the user. The suit names the NBA team, Yinzcam, Inc., which developed the […]
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