Category «Cybersecurity»

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 30, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 30, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Privacy, Search Engines

Privacy Law Fundamentals Sixth Edition, 2022

Solove, Daniel J. and Schwartz, Paul M., An Overview of Privacy Law in 2022 (April 1, 2022). Chapter 1 of Privacy Law Fundamentals (6th Edition, IAPP 2022), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4072205 “Chapter 1 of Privacy Law Fundamentals(6th edition, IAPP 2022) provides an overview of information privacy law circa 2022. The chapter summarizes the common themes …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

Vice: “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document. Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Social Media

The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach?

Via LLRX – The FBI is breaking into corporate computers to remove malicious code – smart cyber defense or government overreach? – Cybersecurity scholar Scott J. Shackelford discusses how the FBI has the authority right now to access privately owned computers without their owners’ knowledge or consent, and to delete software. It’s part of a government …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 23, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 23, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Microsoft, Privacy

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022

Via LLRX –Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 16, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Transportation

How to Bypass Blocked Sites and Internet Restrictions

MakeUseOf: “Need to access a blocked website? Try these tips and tricks to bypass internet restrictions and view the content you want. It doesn’t matter where in the world you live; there are times when you’re going to come across blocked sites and a restricted internet. If you come across an internet block, don’t panic. …

Subjects: Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Privacy, Search Engines

Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications

CRS Report – Blockchain: Novel Provenance Applications, April 8, 2022: “Blockchain, generally, is a database technology that records and stores information in blocks of data that are linked, or “chained,” together. Data stored on a blockchain are continually shared, replicated, and synchronized across the nodes in a network—individual computer systems or specialized hardware that communicate …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Privacy

A glossary of terms about cyberattacks, from ransomware to DDoS

Mozilla Blog: “If you read news about technology, you’re bound to run into some jargon. Here at Mozilla, we believe that information should be as accessible as possible regardless of your level of expertise. We want to help you approach stories about technology with more curiosity and with a little less head-scratching involved. We’ll break …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 9, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 9, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, ID Theft, Privacy