Cybersecurity

Google’s Location Privacy Setting Was Bogus, Says AZ Lawsuit

It was nearly impossible for smartphone users to keep their location data private, even with the settings Google ostensibly provided […]

Third Try For Federal Data Privacy Act

A bill to protect people’s privacy when their data is collected by big tech companies went nowhere when it was […]

Forget The “Script Kiddies”: DOJ Needs To Get Serious About The Ransomware Business

Ransomware attacks aren’t spawned by lone wolves or wayward geeks. They are rather the end product of an organized business […]

After Crippling Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack, Industry Still Resists Incident Reporting Requirements

Following the recent Colonial Pipeline ransom attack, there is a push in Congress for new pipeline security legislation, but the […]

Employees Seeking Data Containing Their Personal Information

Data subject access requests (DSARs), the right for any consumer to request that companies tell them what data holding their […]

Task Force to Tackle Ransomware

Ransom demands are escalating, but a public-private partnership formed last December is trying to devise a coordinated response. Among the […]

Apple Breach Typifies “The Future Of Online Extortion”

After obtaining technical information about unreleased Apple products by breaching Apple supplier Quanta, Ransomware gang REvil wants $50 million from […]

Five Billion Personal Records Hacked In Q1 2021

Numbers based on Hackmageddon data, where the most significant cybersecurity breaches are recorded continuously, show more than 5 billion data […]

For GCs, A Troubling Ruling From Mass. Supreme Court

Following revelations that data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained and utilized Facebook users’ data for political-advertising purposes, Facebook commissioned a […]

Distribution, Not Generation, Said To Be Achilles Heel of Power Infrastructure

A recent report from the GAO warns that vulnerabilities in national electrical distribution systems are not being addressed, and the results of a cyber attack on those systems could be dire.

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