In today’s world, cameras are everywhere. People use their phones to capture details of their everyday lives for social media apps like Instagram or Snapchat. Tourists take pictures of city streets and attractions, inevitably capturing the surrounding crowd. When you think about it, all of us have probably appeared in these types of pictures just [...]
Continue Reading →The police department of Fresno, California has been using the software program, Beware, for the last year now. It has recently decided to continue the use of the program after an initial free trial period. The makers of Beware, Intrado, wanted to develop a “tool to help
first responders understand the [...]
In today’s social-media focused Internet age, many new doting parents will flood friends’ Facebook news feeds with pictures of their newly arrived chubby-cheeked children. At first glance, this behavior seems innocuous – but the French police earlier this week warned citizens that Internet predators, identity thieves, and other unscrupulous individuals could view those pictures [...]
Continue Reading →When it comes to data collection from use of devices and programs considered “necessities” in today’s world, the all too common question is – what is this data really being used for? This question was posed in a very public way by Senator Al Franken, the chief Democrat in the US Senate’s Privacy, Technology, and [...]
Continue Reading →Should you care about protecting the data on your cellphone? What about the data on the phone of a terrorist? One technology powerhouse cares strongly about this issue and is even willing to go to (metaphorical) blows with the United States Government over the result.
On December 14th, 2015, two shooters carried out an [...]
Continue Reading →Facing the real threats of bullying, harassment, and gun-violence in American schools, school districts have sought solutions that will keep students safer. In the fight to protect students in school, many school districts have turned their attention beyond the school building: to student social media accounts.
School districts in California and Florida have [...]
Continue Reading →Former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa plead guilty to five of twelve charges relating to the 2014 hacking of the Astros’ computer network. The database Correa hacked into contained scouting reports, statistics, and trade discussions. Three months before the draft, in March of 2013, Correa downloaded the Astros’ rankings for all players eligible for [...]
Continue Reading →The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) passed the Senate with a vote of 74-21, and will now be merged with two other similar bills before reaching President Obama.
The CISA is intended to reduce the amount of corporate data breaches by permitting companies to share data regarding potential cyber threats with the Department of [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier this month, presidential candidate Donald Trump received a cease and desist letter on behalf of Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler demanding that Trump stop using “Dream On” at campaign events. The letter sought to disclaim any political endorsement by Tyler, stating in part, “We are unaware of any public performance license granting Trump [...]
Continue Reading →As Halloween approaches on October 31, so does the end of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Unfortunately, to the horror of many consumers nation-wide, October also appears to have been Corporate Cyber Theft Month, with no fewer than four large national corporations reporting data security breaches with the potential to compromise sensitive consumer information.
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