FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is being sued. Again. This is not news. What is news is why they are being sued. Google says that they don’t sell your data. While that may be accurate, they do, according to a new lawsuit, give it away to anyone who wants it. How does that work? Google sells ads. While some […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Friday Title industry software and consulting provider was hit by a ransomware attack. Cloudstar operates 6 data centers and supports over 40,000 customer users. Now those customers are wondering what are they going to do. Cloudstar users who close real estate sales are dependent on Cloudstar’s systems being up. Cloudstar has been down since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply Chain Attacks Roll On The Accellion File Transfer Appliance vulnerabilities have been the source of many breach notifcations over the last several months. For whatever reason, they seem to be dribbling out. The newest one is Morgan Stanley. In this case, it was a Morgan Stanley VENDOR that was using Accellion, so instead of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was California (version 1 and version 2); then it was Virginia. Now it is Colorado. IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP THERE. California’s CCPA covered human resources data somewhat. CPRA covers it completely and will require HR departments to create programs to protect HR data. This includes notices at the time data is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The last presidential administration went hard after China – applying sanction after sanction, but with minimal success. They also seemed to give Russia a free pass. Many of the very public recent hacks are being attributed to Russia, including SolarWinds and Kaseya. When Biden met with Putin in Helsinki last month, the two agreed to […]
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