Well, we assume that it is. After all, we think our data is sold all the time. But mega-data-company Thompson Reuters ran across a judge that disagrees. We shall see where the appeals go. The case hinges on a product that TR sells called CLEAR. If you sign up as a CLEAR customer then you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California AG Rob Bonta has been enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year now and we are learning what he doesn’t like. One bit of good news that we learned is that notices of violations that he sends out triggers a 30 day cure period and that seems to be working. He […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Nick Merker, partner at Indianapolis based law firm Ice Miller, spoke at Black Hat on the subject. Nick has been involved in over 500 cyber incidents and has learned a few things in the process. When lawyers become involved in a cyber incident, the consider things like compliance (like HIPAA), insurance, liability, evidence preservation and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has to be called a really bad oopsy, the Dallas Police Department, during a data migration effort back in March, lost 22 TB of data. This includes data from at least one murder case. The Dallas DA said that the city of Dallas (as opposed to the DA) discovered the problem on April […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Android Trojan Hits 140 Countries, 10,000 Victims Via Social Media Hijack Security company Zimperium says they have found a new trojan they call Flytrap that has been around since March and compromises users’ phones who side load apps from third party app stores. Once the malicious app is on the user’s phone, it uses that […]
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