Citrix Sued For Not Securing Employee Info Before Data Breach
A class action complaint was filed by an ex-employee of Citrix for damages suffered following the security breach which allowed hackers to access Citrix’s internal assets for roughly six months and to steal sensitive personal information of both current and former employees. […]
Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology
A Polish academic is accusing Google of trying to patent technology he invented and that he purposely released into the public domain so companies like Google couldn’t trap it inside restrictive licenses. The technology’s name is Asymmetric Numeral Systems (ANS) [1, 2], a family of entropy coding methods that Polish assistant professor Jarosław (Jarek) Duda […]
Companies Must Tell Employees When Monitoring Their PC Activity, EU Court Rules
EU companies must notify employees in advance if they plan to monitor work accounts, the European Court of Human Rights ruled this week. The ruling comes in a case filed by Romanian IT worker Bogdan Barbulescu, who in 2007 was fired by his employer for using his work computer for private conversations with family members. […]
Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years
Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia cop, will remain in jail for refusing to decrypt a hard drive federal investigators found in his home two years ago during a child abuse investigation. A judge ordered the man to prison almost two years ago after the suspect claimed he forgot the password of an encrypted Apple FileVault […]
Lawsuit Filed Against Logitech for Delaying Warranty Claims, Hiding EOL Decision
A US man has filed a lawsuit against Logitech, a Swiss-based manufacturer of electronic devices, on accusations that Logitech had intentionally delayed and tried to discourage warranty claims for defective products, falsely advertised products, and even hid an End-Of-Life (EOL) announcement from customers. The product at the heart of this lawsuit is a high-definition digital […]