Enlarge / A monitor displays Equifax Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on Friday, September 15, 2017. reader comments 215 with 117 posters participating Share this story If you haven’t already filed a claim for cash compensation in response to the Equifax breach, you might be ..
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Enlarge / Your local police might like to interest you in this product. reader comments 171 with 101 posters participating Share this story Amazon and its subsidiary Ring, maker of home surveillance equipment, have a very cozy relationship with law enforcement. So cozy, according to reports, that Amazon not only requires police departments it partners ..
Enlarge / Georgia State Police and Capitol Police had their laptops taken offline by ransomware in the latest of many attacks on state and local government agencies. reader comments 34 with 23 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, the Georgia Department of Public Safety revealed that laptop computers in state police and Capitol police vehicles—as ..
Enlarge / Thumbs down. Getty Images | Ted Soqui reader comments 37 with 26 posters participating Share this story A group of privacy and consumer organizations is asking a federal court to slow its roll on approving the Federal Trade Commission’s $5 billion settlement with Facebook, saying it doesn’t do nearly enough to protect individuals. ..
Enlarge / Hutchins, right, walks to court with his lawyers in 2017. Joshua Lott/Getty Images reader comments 20 with 14 posters participating, including story author Share this story British security expert and onetime malware developer Marcus Hutchins has been sentenced to time served, he announced in a Friday tweet. Hutchins became famous in the security world ..
Enlarge / US President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on Saturday, March 2, 2019. reader comments 106 with 80 posters participating Share this story US President Donald Trump is threatening to retaliate after French President Emmanuel Macron signed legislation imposing a 3% tax on digital transactions. ..
Enlarge / To the credit of the three school districts affected, at least nobody’s trying to pay the Danegeld. reader comments 93 with 56 posters participating, including story author Share this story This Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency in response to ransomware attacks on three public school districts. There’s no ..
Bloomberg | Getty Images reader comments 86 with 64 posters participating Share this story There is at long last a silver lining for the 144 million of us who had our personal data leaked in the gigantic 2017 Equifax data breach: cash money. Under the terms of its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Equifax ..
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai. reader comments 78 with 63 posters participating Share this story It’s not easy to convince Google to remove unflattering information about you from its search results. One of the few reasons Google will remove search listings if it gets a court order to do so. But getting a court ..
Getty Images | alexsl reader comments 71 with 53 posters participating Share this story The Justice Department today announced its approval of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger as part of a settlement that requires the merging companies to spin off several assets to Dish Network. The DOJ decided against filing a lawsuit to block the T-Mobile US ..
