The Los Angeles Press Club announced the finalists for the 62nd Southern California Journalism Awards and I am “moooved” to report that Cyber Report has been nominated for the 10th time, this time for best individual blog for my piece on Six Things to Know About Devin Nunes’ Bizarre Lawsuit Against Twitter and a Tweeting Cow.…
On April 2, 2020, I moderated a webinar on “Cyber Security Basics for the Work from Home Economy,” for the California Lawyers Association. After the webinar, my panelists did a Zoom discussion on the same topic with this version being more consumer-focused. You can check that version out below.
The candidate that might have the biggest impact on you or your community is not at the top of the ticket, but instead at the bottom – candidates for judges. I often stress to my clients that the judicial system is part of a community’s business infrastructure and to pay attention to these races. I…
On May 23rd the Justice Department returned a superseding indictment against Julian Assange that not only includes and expands on the prior claim stemming from an attempt to hack into the Pentagon’s Secret Internet Protocol Network but adds sixteen additional charges stemming from obtaining and publishing classified information. Counts 5, 18: Attempted Unauthorized Obtaining and…
In 2015, Prost Productions secured $90,000 from Kickstarter for the production of its documentary on Yelp, “Billion Dollar Bully.” Yelp’s share price fell 5 percent immediately thereafter. Tonight in San Francisco, the film gets its long-awaited premiere at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco (click here for details/tickets). The film will be available for purchase…
The Debate over the California Consumer Privacy Act with Santa Clara Law Professor Eric Goldman The California Lawyers Association’s Intellectual Property Section, Technology, Internet & Privacy Subcommittee’s February Call Wednesday, February 13th at Noon Pacific Time Dial-in number 855-520-7605 / Passcode 1211276419# Agenda Part 1: Introduction Welcome/Introductions Part 2: Presentation by Professor Goldman Professor Goldman will address…
Agenda Part 1: Introduction Welcome/Introductions Update on England v Croatia TIP Program Chair – applicants welcome IP Section Long Range Planning – Programming Ideas Part 2: Presentations Presentation: Santa Clara Law Professor Lydia de la Torre on the California Consumer Privacy Act. See IAPP summary of the CCPA. and Prof. de la Torre bio below.…
One mistake startups make, particularly in the tech sector, is to misclassify employees as independent contractors. Employees come with costs – tax withholding; paying Social Security, Medicare and unemployment taxes; overtime (where appropriate) and even benefits – that are absent with independent contractors. The IRS emphasizes that if the business controls what work is accomplished and directs…
Tech’s DC Agenda for 2018 with David Snead LISTEN/DOWNLOAD When the House of Representatives returns to work on Monday there will be approximately 90-days left on the House calendar until election day. What is on tech’s agenda for this election-year session. Internet Infrastructure Coalition Co-Founder & Policy Working Group Chair David Snead returns to…
A major decision on data scraping and blocking access to publicly available information on the web came this week in hiQ Labs, Inc. v LinkedIn, Inc., No. 3:17-cv-03301-EMC (N.D. Cal. Aug. 14, 2017). The decision enjoined LinkedIn from blocking access to its service.
In 2014, press reports revealed that Uber employees improperly accessed riders’ personal information using an internal company tool called the “God View.” To respond to the controversy, Uber posted this statement on its site: Uber has a strict policy prohibiting all employees at every level from accessing a rider or driver’s data. The only…
NotPetya, Trump and a Cyber Katrina The Dangers of a President Who is AWOL on Cyber Attacks In May the WannaCry ransomware attack hit approximately 400,000 computers in 150 countries. Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts some portion of your computer files, demanding payment by the victim via Bitcoin to regain access. WannaCry was…
It’s Time to Speak Up to Save Your Internet Today is the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality, in which more than 50,000 people, sites, and organizations, including Amazon, Etsy Facebook, Google, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Netflix, OK Cupid, Reddit, Twitter and Vimeo, will demonstrate to oppose the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) plan to…
JONATHAN TURLEY Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 37, is a leading Vietnamese blogger known as “Mother Mushroom” has been writing for years to expose the torture and oppression of the one-party state. This week Vietnam showed the world that, despite its portrayal as one of the world’s emerging economies, it remains an authoritarian warmed-over Communist regime.…
WHAT IS IT? According to Krebs on Security, Petya uses the “Eternal Blue” exploit, a digital weapon that was believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency and in April 2017 leaked online by a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers. Microsoft released a patch for the Eternal Blue exploit in March (MS17-010), but…
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