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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, […]

Chinese Cyber-Espionage Abates

Moves by the U.S., including indictments and the threat of economic sanctions, have led to a sharp decrease in instances […]

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