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Google to pay $7.5M in class action settlement. That’s $5 a victim.

As confirmed by BleepingComputer, users today are receiving emails titled, “Notice of Class Action Settlement re Google Plus…” that offer details on the two-year class-action lawsuit Google had been litigating because of the Google+ data leak. […]

04 Apr

DOJ Says Zoom-Bombing is Illegal, Could Lead to Jail Time

The Department of Justice and Offices of the United States Attorneys are warning that ‘Zoom-bombing’ is illegal and those who are involved can be charged with federal and state crimes. […]

21 Feb

New Mexico Sues Google for Mining Children’s Data

Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using its Google for Education platform to gather the personal and private data from students under the age of thirteen. […]

06 Jan

IT Executive Steals $6 Million, Busted by Word Doc Metadata

A former corporate executive for integrated marketing solutions firm Rakuten Marketing swindled roughly $6 million between August 2015 and at least May 2019 using a shell company named Interactive Systems. […]

27 Sep

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. […]

27 Jul

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. […]

02 Jul

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. […]

20 Jun

Epic Games Sues YouTuber CBV for Selling Fortnite Cheats

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Epic Games is suing a YouTuber who goes by the name CBV for allegedly selling cheats Fornite and ruining the game for other users. […]

31 May

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. […]

11 Sep

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 […]

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