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If you’ve seen references to a court ruling sort of redefining the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act recently, or even if you haven’t, this paragraph from the folks at McGuire Woods boils down the real life implications pretty well.… Read More
I’m a day late on this, but didn’t want to let it go without mentioning the day, and the importance of better password management. Several times people choose easy-to-remember passwords rather than focusing on security. With the rising concerns over … Read More
It’s easy to point at the Facebook or Google’s of the world, and blame them for violating our privacy when they’ve been tracking our personal information all over the web, but it’s not just them. It’s also all the organizations … Read More
I found this story a little late, but I find it to be illustrative of the whole difficulty with trying to fight what has become known as “fake news”. This was the attempt: On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a … Read More
As much as I am very concerned about the invasion of privacy that comes along with ever-present government and commercial surveillance, the even bigger concern might just be what an inviting target all of that data will be. As governments … Read More
I’m not sure about this headline, it appears that, according to the company that makes WordPress Multi Language, the plugin code itself wasn’t hacked, just the customer database. Nevertheless, we see yet again that it wasn’t outside hackers causing problems … Read More
The story is disturbing on many levels, but for me this is the part that is both obvious, and a reason why IoT devices deserve a lot more careful consideration than we have been giving them. “At the time the … Read More