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Security News for the Week Ending January 19, 2024

Regulators Going After Crypto Firms A number of crypto firms have felt the sting of regulators recently. The most recent one is Genesis Global Trading. New York’s DFS fined them $8 million and required them to surrender their license for failure to comply with money laundering and other laws. Of course, a key purpose for […]

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FTC Settles Unprecedented Case Against Data Broker

The FTC announced today its first ever settlement with a data broker for selling location data. The FTC alleged that the data broker, Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, sold precise consumer location data and allowed third parties to track visits to health care providers, houses of worship and other sensitive destinations. The FTC claims […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 14, 2023

OpenAI and Meta Both Sued for Copyright Infringement Over AI Tools Even though the courts, with minor exception, are technologically uneducated, they are going to have to make some very important decisions. Law.com is reporting that OpenAI is being sued by book authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman over misappropriation of their copyrighted works to be […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 6, 2022

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline attack. The government has done more to improve cybersecurity in the last year than it had done in the last 10 years. But there is still a lot more to do. Jury Finds Norton/Lifelock Infringed on Two Columbia University Patents Even in the world of cybersecurity, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending August 21, 2020

August 13th, a Day That Will Live in Confusion August 13th is the day that Part B of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act went into effect. It bans the use of equipment and services tied to certain Chinese companies that have been deemed security threats by the United States. Companies that […]

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