Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been fighting with the U.S. Department of Justice since 2013 when the DoJ tried to get Microsoft to get them to hand over data belonging to a user, stored exclusively in Ireland. This case has gone back and forth in the courts since then. The bottom line issue is whether a U.S. Court […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. Microsoft had 14 bulletins, 5 of which they deemed critical, covering 59 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches covering 193 vulnerabilities, including 25 Java patches, one of which is already being exploited in the wild. 44 of these vulnerabilities came from third party components. Of the 25 Java vulnerabilities fixed, 23 of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about a company that experienced an outage with Microsoft Office 365 cloud email. Users could not get to their email from Outlook or on their phones for 24 hours and it affected users in the U.S. and overseas (see article). The company filed a claim with Microsoft for breaching the SLA but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the Sony breach in November, the group that took down Sony’s and Microsoft’s game network on Christmas (see article) seems to be very interested in getting attention. Hopefully enough so that the FBI finds them, but that is another story. What is more important is that the people who did this, according to Brian […]
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