The Target Board can breathe a little easier today – although they are not out of the woods yet – in that the shareholders who filed a series of derivative actions have agreed that the cases can be dismissed as long as they can come back for legal fees. The lawsuits claim that Target’s directors […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Compliance is one of those challenges for companies big and small. One of those compliance requirements is to keep abreast of changes to or new laws that apply to your organization. While we don’t offer legal advice, when we see items related to compliance, we will bring them to your attention. In the case of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has been a monument to how NOT to handle a data breach, Wendy’s has again revised the number of restaurants affected by hackers. Wendy’s initially refused to release any information about how big the hack was, although bankers were saying that this was hitting them harder than the Home Depot breach did. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, you don’t have to check your calendar, it is not April Fools Day and Yes, they really do want to do that. Along with the rest of your medical devices. Some of you may remember that when Dick Cheney was Veep, they modified his pacemaker so that the bad guys couldn’t take him out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr of the District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia says that the FBI can hack your computer without a warrant. Judge Morgan said that the defendant “has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer”, in part because the FBI only collected limited information. The defendant is involved in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carbonite: Carbonite sent out an email to all customers to reset their passwords. They claim that they have not been hacked but that they are seeing a large number of attempts to log in by third parties. They say that based on their security review, they have no evidence that they have been hacked. If […]
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