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Office Depot and Support.com to Pay $35M for Fake Malware Scan ‘Scam’
Feds win technical victory against an alleged campaign to fool customers. The FTC claims Office Depot and Support.com deliberately lied to consumers, saying their PCs were infected with malware. However, the scanning tool ...
Owning Your Legal Practice’s Cybersecurity – MSPs and You
Law practices should be aware of the cyber risks associated with IT, as a security breach involve financial and reputational damages, and legal liabilities. Read what the six questions are that every ...
Top 10 FOSS legal developments in 2018
2018 saw developments in many free and open source software legal issues, including copyright, license compliance, patent nonaggression, and antitrust law. By Mark Radcliffe, Victoria Lee and Chris Stevenson The year 2018 ...
Next-generation audit reports: Enhanced visibility into open source risks in M&A transactions
Black Duck audit reports help you understand your license compliance, software security, code quality, and web services risks—and now they’re even better. Our customers rely on Black Duck audits to help them ...
9 Key Players for a Winning Security Team
Basketball legend Michael Jordan once said, “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” When it comes to something as important as your company’s security, you can’t afford to rely on ...
3 Reasons Why Apptega is the Perfect Cybersecurity Holiday Gift
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou As the holiday season quickly approaches, it is custom to give gifts as a sign of thanks and appreciation ...
Legally Dangerous Attackers
Malicious actors are consistently and persistently looking for new avenues to compromise sensitive data and they’ve found one such entry through legal firms. Legal firms play a unique role within the economy ...
Don’t expect jailed CEOs, but Wyden at least puts consumer privacy on the table
The Consumer Data Protection Act (as outlined in the CDPA draft circulated in early November by Sen. Ron Wyden) might not send CEOs to jail, but it will certainly help protect Americans’ ...
GPLv2 and the right to cure
Many contracts contain language saying that if the licensee breaches/violates the license, the licensee will have an opportunity to cure that breach. But the GPLv2 provides no right to cure. Many contracts, ...
Phishing Is the Top Reason Behind Australian Data Breaches
The latest Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report confirms that Australian legal practices are at risk of cybercrime with phishing as the main threat. The post Phishing Is the Top Reason Behind ...
