The New York Times reported about a new “bill would require internet companies to provide information to the election commission about who is paying for online ads.” The October 19, 2017 report entitled “Senators Demand Online Ad Disclosures as Tech Lobby Mobilizes” included these comments:
Senator John McCain…
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The New York Times reported that the US Supreme Court will consider a case against Microsoft to “decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States.” In 1986 Congress passed the Stored Communications Act (SCA) to control telephone records long before the…
The Washington Post wrote that Facebook “it has merely corrected a “bug” that allowed [Jonathan] Albright, who is research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, to access information he never should have been able to find in the first place.” The October 12, 2017 article…
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The Washington Post reported that Google admitted that it “found that tens of thousands of dollars were spent on ads by Russian agents who aimed to spread disinformation across Google’s many products, which include YouTube, as well as advertising associated with Google search, Gmail, and the company’s DoubleClick ad network.”…
Gizmodo reported that IRS supports its new $7.25 million contract with Equifax as a “no bid sole source” contract “to help verify US taxpayers’ identities” …and without which “would have prevented thousands of hurricane victims from obtaining much needed…. tax information.” The October 5, 2017 story entitled “IRS Chief…
Rueters reported that former Equifax CEO Richard Smith (who retired suddenly last week) provided written testimony that “Equifax was alerted to the breach by the U.S. Homeland Security Department on March 9,…, but it was not patched.” The October 2, 2017 report entitled “Equifax failed to patch security vulnerability…
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…
Gemalto issued a report that “identity theft breaches continues to remain high and result in many records being stolen shows that organizations are still not adequately addressing this threat.” The September 2017 report entitled “2017 Poor Internal Security Practices Take a Toll” included these comments:
A large portion…
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…
My good friend Kevin Campbell (SVP/CIO at Hunt Consolidated, Inc.) shared this bad news that “Antivirus firm Avast has admitted inadvertently distributing a trojanised version of CCleaner, a popular PC tune-up tool, for nearly a month, infecting an estimated 2.27 million users.” This news was reported by The Register on…
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