IBM emphasizes that ““this could happen to us” so employers should  provide training on “how to avoid becoming a victim, use a variety of approaches—video, webinars, in-person instruction—and require training at intervals to make the risk clear.”  IBM issued “The perils of phishing” report in December 2015 which…

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported its settlement with LifeLock regarding its lack of compliance with a 2010 Order that “LifeLock failed to establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program to protect users’ sensitive personal information including their social security, credit card and bank account numbers.”  The December 17…

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The Government Accountability Office (G.A.O.) ruled that the “Environmental Protection Agency [E.P.A.] engaged in “covert propaganda” and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters.”  The New York Times reported…

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Since I first learned about AI more than 40 years ago I was hoping that AI would help improve society, and when in studying law I was hopeful that lawyers could use AI.  Recent AI advancements may be the beginning of practical AI since it includes improved Internet search which…

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Blue Coat reports that among other bad malware is now referred to PUS – “Potentially Unwanted Software” which “frequently finds its way onto a mobile device through the use of deceptive advertising, or other social engineering attacks designed to deceive the victim into installing the unwanted program.”  The 2015 Mobile…

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The NY Times reported that China claims that Chinese criminals stole the data from the US Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) computer systems not the Chinese government.  However the article seemed highly skeptical that the hack was from criminals and said  the confession “raised more questions than it answered”:

The…

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In the dismissal of a class action by Yelp shareholders a federal judge ruled that “a reasonable investor would have known that some of the reviews on Yelp’s website were inauthentic.”  On November 24, 2015 US District Judge Jon Tigar (Northern District of California) granted Yelp’s Motion to Dismiss in…

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Visualizing Impact launched Onlinecensorship.org which “gives social media users a place to report takedown notices and catalog content that has been removed.”  EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression and co-founder of Onlinecensorship.org Jillian C. York said:

We want to know how social media…

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