From phones to children’s toys and speakers, just about everything can become a “smart” device today. Even vibrators. And just like all of the other devices, sex toys can also violate your privacy. …
The Casino Rama Resort in Ontario, Canada announced Thursday that the facility had suffered a data breach that could have compromised information going back as far as 2004. One day later a class action lawyer began preparations for a $50 million lawsuit against the property. Toronto Lawyer Ted Charney proposed the suit on Friday and according to several media reports the “statement of claim” …
Class-action lawyers wasted little time Friday in jumping on word of a cyberattack on an Ontario casino in which sensitive information was stolen. The lawyers announced plans for a proposed lawsuit that would seek $50 million in damages from Casino Rama north of Toronto, and began asking possible victims to sign on. “The class action will be commenced on behalf of employees, customers and …
In September, Yahoo announced that at least 500 million user account credentials had been stolen from it in late 2014. Yahoo offered more details on the security breach’s effect on its business in an SEC filing on Wednesday. Although the company says it only spent $1 million related to the breach last quarter, it admitted that the breach may “cause users and customers to curtail or stop using our products and services.” CEO Marissa Mayer said last month that she was …
Two former researchers at Duke University at the center of a lawsuit by a whistleblower to recoup millions in federal funding have lost yet another paper. This is hardly the first retraction for Erin Potts-Kant , who used to work in the pulmonary lab of now-retired William Michael Foster. Earlier this year, a lawsuit filed by a former colleague of Potts-Kant and Foster was unsealed alleging …
The Associated Press, Gannett, and Vice Media LLC filed a joint lawsuit Friday seeking information about how the FBI unlocked the iPhone of mass-shooter Syed Rizwan Farook earlier this year, according to a report from the Associated Press. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and wounded 22 others in a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, …
We-Vibe 4 Plus is the name of the innovative vibrator that connects to an app via Bluetooth and allows the user’s partner to control the sex toy from anywhere in the world. However, as it seems with any technology these days: hackers are watching. Two of which held a talk at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas last month and spoke of We-Vibe’s security flaws.
Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by US law enforcement of orders that force companies not to inform their users about requests for their data. Under the Stored Communications Act, a part of the Electronic Communications …
EMPLOYEES AT storage manufacturer Seagate are suing the company after a senior HR executive fell for a phishing scam earlier this year resulting in tax information on thousands of employees being exposed. A class-action lawsuit was filed in July at Northern California District Court accusing Seagate of malpractice and a lack of regard for employees through negligent data management. Which is a …
Oregon credit union sues Noodles & Company over breach The credit union argued that Noodles & Company failed to implement or maintain adequate data security measures. Oregon credit union SELCO Community Credit Union accused Noodles & Company of failing to implement or maintain adequate data security measures for customer information despite highly publicized breaches at large national retailers …