US Senate Passes Bill in Response to Rampant Ransomware, CyberAttacks
The U.S. Senate passed the ‘DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act’ (S.315) to authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to maintain cyber hunt and incident response teams to help private and public entities defend against cyber-attacks. […]
New York Passes Law to Update Data Breach Notification Requirements
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act into law, with the new consumer privacy policy being designed to protect New Yorkers’ private data and strengthen the state’s data breach policies. […]
D-Link Settles FTC Lawsuit, Promises to Enhance Device Security
Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link today settled a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit originating from a 2017 complaint saying that it failed to properly secure its Internet-connected cameras and wireless routers. […]
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. […]