Law.com reported about “a three-year battle, a regional court in Berlin has found that Facebook’s default privacy settings, terms of service, and requirement that users register under their own name violate Germany’s data privacy and consent rules. “ The article entitled “Facebook Foreshadowing: German Court Underscores Tech’s Uncertain GDPR…
Continue Reading German Court Ruling against Facebook portends trouble under GDPR!
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton announced the SEC’s approval of the “Commission Statement and Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures” under which “the disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws that public operating companies must pay particular attention to when considering their disclosure obligations…
Continue Reading What took the SEC so long to adopt Cybersecurity Disclosure requirements?
The Washington Post wrote an article that “State officials have been scrambling to address vulnerabilities in their systems, particularly since the fall, when the Department of Homeland Security disclosed the attempts on the 21 states. Though it is not believed there were further attacks, experts say Russian operatives may have…
Continue Reading Cybersecurity threats targeted at State elections?
TexasLawyer.com recently interviewed Erin Nealy Cox (US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas since November 2017) who described her “…expertise in cybersecurity will help me identify and communicate the threats to the affected communities so they can understand and craft solutions needed to defend themselves; and it will help…
Continue Reading New US Attorney has extensive Cybersecurity experience!
Money.CNN reported that Google’s Waymo (Google’s self-driving car program) sued Uber for theft of trade secrets, but during the middle of trial “accepted a settlement offer from Uber, which agreed to a deal that includes 0.34% of Uber’s equity at a $72 billion valuation, which works out to about $245…
Continue Reading Uber settles claims for $245M that it stole Google’s trade secrets!
Darkreading reports that there has been a new cyberattack at the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which “scams people into providing personal data and downloading malicious files by impersonating the”… IC3…which is “intended to give the public a reliable means of reporting suspected illegal activity online.” The February 2…
The New York Times reported that “Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company to serve their employees in the United States.” The January 30, 2018 report entitled “Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Disrupt Health Care…
DMNews.com reported that GDPR is “a massive piece of legislation and if you want to read all 250+ pages, talk about it with fellow data nerds or marketing professionals, or just comprehend the various articles online, you need to know some of the key terms.” The January 24, 2018 report…
Darkreading reported that Kaspersky Lab’s filed a motion for injunctive relief against the Department of Homeland Security’s ban which has “caused considerable reputational damage and loss of sales to the company in North America. The debarment has precluded Kaspersky Lab from doing business with the US federal government, while hurting…
Darkreading’s recent article identified goals of using ML in Cybersecurity “To make a broad statement, we are trying to use ML to identify malicious behavior or malicious entities; call them hackers, attackers, malware, unwanted behavior, etc. In other words, it comes down to finding anomalies.” The January 11, 2018 article…
