If you have customers in the EU this is important to you but even if you don’t, you may get involved. We recently heard of a case where a small company was sent a threatening letter of non-compliance with EU law, even though they don’t do business in the EU. Turns out that doesn’t matter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New York Assembly bill A7006B, the Right to Repair Act, would give citizens and repair shops the right to repair consumer electronics. Even though it has been sitting on the governor’s desk for a couple of months, she has neither signed nor vetoed it. I suspect the fact that she is up for re-election could […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brussels Warns Musk That the Bird Must Fly By EU Rules in Europe The EU Commission warned Musk – via Twitter of course – that he will need to comply with EU’s Digital Services Act that goes into effect next month. It is the EU’s newest version of content moderation rules that may conflict with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dropbox says it was phished – simple as that. As a result, the attacker had access to 130 of its code repositories and downloaded a wide range of information. Dropbox has been very transparent about this, but it is both embarrassing and damaging to the company. The hackers socially engineered an employee to give up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Any time you want to create change, you go through some instability. Twitter is no exception. Here is part of that story. Cyber crooks have already capitalized on Twitter’s ongoing verification chaos by sending phishing emails designed to steal passwords. The campaign lures Twitter users into posting their username and password on to an attacker’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is just one example. Fallout from the hack of Australian health insurer Medibank continues to get worse as the company has “widened” the group of people affected by the breach. Again! Remember, this is not a mom-and-pop corner sandwich shop. This is the largest private health insurer in Australia. Last week they admitted that […]
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