Cyberlaw
What the TikTok Ban Could Mean for GRC
The White House and TikTok’s critics in Congress have made it clear: They consider TikTok a dangerous social media app and national security threat. Throughout the March 23, 2023, congressional hearing, TikTok ...
Show Me the Coverage: Ransomware Actors Demand Cyberinsurance Policies
The landscape of cybersecurity threats is continuously evolving, and ransomware attacks have emerged as a significant concern for organizations of all sizes. In a ransomware attack, cybercriminals encrypt the victim’s files, rendering ...
Is Trafficking in Hacking Information a Crime?
Quincy Compton of Concord, North Carolina, had a wife and a pregnant girlfriend and wrote to a doctor in Washington, D.C. for information about terminating a pregnancy. The doctor, Thomas Kemp, wrote ...
Ethics in AI: The Missing Code
As part of its push toward artificial intelligence, Microsoft laid off more than 10,000 employees and spent billions on acquiring AI tech. Among those laid off were the seven-member team in their ...
Privacy Challenges Illustrated by Recent Cases
In the 1973 baseball melodrama Bang the Drum Slowly, the players, intent on scamming some rubes, play a card game called “TEGWAR.” It stands, as you later learn, for ‘The Exciting Game ...
Cowbell Adds Free Cybersecurity Services for Insurance Policy Holders
Cowbell this week added a free 24/7 managed security service for organizations that take out a cyberinsurance policy to help reduce the cost of a cybersecurity breach. Manu Singh, vice president of ...
Wading Back Into the Software Liability Cesspool
Time must be a flat circle—it seems that every couple of years, someone brings up the topic of software liability. Just stay in one place, and soon enough, the train will come ...
The Internet’s Future at Stake (Really!) as Supreme Court Takes Up Provider Immunity
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Those 26 words helped create the ...
White House Bans TikTok on Federal Devices
Federal agencies have 30 days to remove the popular Chinese social media app TikTok from federal government devices, according to a guidance memorandum issued by the White House. The memo, written by ...
Supreme Court: Does BIlling Fraud Violate Federal ID Theft Statutes?
Simple question: Is a user ID and password similar to an identification card like a driver’s license or a key? If I use your user ID and password to log into your ...
