Cybersecurity

In A First, SEC Fines Morgan Stanley $1 Million For Cybersecurity Lapse

According to the SEC, Morgan Stanley violated the “Safeguards Rule” by failing to prevent an employee from downloading customer information he was not supposed to have access to.

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Password Sharing Can Be Criminal

A former employee who hacked his old company using another worker’s password can be charged under the 1986 Computer Fraud […]

Warning: Security Products Can Backfire

Security software from some of the biggest and best-known companies in the cybersecruity business has been successfully…

Bidding High For Customers’ Emails In Bankruptcy Auction

Dick’s Sporting Goods this weekend put in the winning $15 million bid for the rights to 114 million customer files […]

Consumer Groups Target Cable Companies For Exploiting Customer Data

Several consumer groups have complained before both the FTC and the FCC regarding privacy and data-collection practices of cable and satellite companies AT&T, Cablevision and Comcast …

The Lure Of Cybersecurity “Workarounds” In Healthcare

From Kaspersky Lab, a look at an academic study of cybersecurity in the healthcare setting, a subject that has been […]

Privacy Assurances Save U.S., EU Data Transfer Pact

The European Union and United States’ Privacy Shield agreement is likely to be approved, after the U.S. provided reassurances that […]

Court: Govt Can Hack Your Computer Without A Warrant

In what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls the latest in a series of “troubling decisions,” a district court in the […]

Dealing With UK Privacy Compliance After Brexit: “Carry On”

For now, UK-U.S.data-transfer relations continue to be bound by the UK Data Protection Act of 1998. In the future the […]

N.M. High Court Guides Judges On Social Media

After a judge’s celebratory Facebook post was cited as one of the reasons a murder conviction was sent for retrial, […]

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