Category: Politics

It doesn’t matter if China hacked Equifax

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In attorney general, bad password, badpassword, business, cfpb, China, class action lawsuit, data breach, equifax, fdic, federal reserve, gadgetry, gear, golden parachute, hackers, infosec, Internet, mick mulvaney, Mobile, opinion, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, Security, services, Tech, william barr, wordpress

[ad_1] It was a message of PR reprieve for the skinsuits at Equifax, who spend their life cycles profiting from tracking and trading our personal and financial information (and we’re powerless to stop them). Especially now as we’re seeing reports about how four Chinese hackers “took down Equifax.” That sure sounds a lot better (for […]

The IRS won’t ask you to report ‘Fortnite’ V-Bucks on tax returns

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In currency, fortnite, Games, Gaming, in-app purchases, in-game currency, Internet, irs, money, Politics, tax, taxes, Tech, v-bucks, Video Games

[ad_1] The tax forms won’t clarify matters, though. Schedule 1 in Form 1040 asks taxpayers if they have “any financial interest in any virtual currency” without a definition or an indication of what to do next. While many will check with the IRS for a clarification or simply assume the tax bureau is referring to […]

Huawei accuses US Justice Department of ‘political persecution’

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, trade secrets

[ad_1] The company starts the statement by claiming that many of the criminal charges the US Justice Department announced yesterday are based on older civil disputes that have already been resolved in the past.”In these disputes, no court has ever found that Huawei had engaged in malicious intellectual property theft, or required Huawei to pay […]

Samsung’s jailed union-busting chairman steps down

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In business, labor, labor laws, Politics, Samsung, Tech, tomorrow, union

[ad_1] All of these actions took place in 2013, when Lee Sang-hoon was Samsung’s chief financial officer. He was appointed chairman in March 2018, when Samsung split the chairman and CEO roles for the first time. The company thought that decision would increase transparency following a bribery scandal that involved Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, better […]

Mike Bloomberg is paying Instagram influencers to hype his campaign

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In Entertainment, gear, Influencers, Instagram, Internet, mike bloomberg, Politics, Tech

[ad_1] The main part of the campaign has seen popular meme accounts like @grapejuiceboys and @tank.sinatra post fake direct messages from Bloomberg. In one of the DMs, for example, Bloomberg says he has learned how to use Photoshop before sharing a photo of Bernie Sanders that has been a wellspring of memes recently. Most people […]

Judge grants Amazon’s request to put Microsoft’s Pentagon contract on hold

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In Amazon, block, business, cloud, contract, department of defense, gear, jedi, judge, Microsoft, pause, pentagon, Politics, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The JEDI contract is meant to modernize the Department of Defense’s cloud infrastructure. Amazon and Microsoft were the final contenders, and after the contract went to Microsoft, Amazon claimed that President Trump “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy-Jeffrey P. Bezos.” […]

Justice Department charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, again

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, charges, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, Internet, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, theft, trade secrets, wanzhou meng

[ad_1] These new charges allege that Huawei has run a decades-long attempt to steal intellectual property from six specific but unnamed US companies. Huawei allegedly got its hands on trade secrets and copyrighted work by entering into and then breaking confidentiality agreements, recruiting employees from competitors and using professors as proxies. Huawei even offered bonuses […]

Puerto Rico’s government lost $2.6 million to a phishing scam

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In Email, fbi, fraud, funds, gear, government, Internet, phishing, Politics, puerto rico, Scam, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Rubén Rivera, finance director of the island’s Industrial Development Company, told AP that the agency received an email alleging a change to a bank account tied to remittance payments. In response, the agency transferred the funds to the fake account. It’s still unclear how officials discovered the scam, if anyone has been dismissed or […]

Senate bill would place a moratorium on feds using facial recognition

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In gear, Politics, Tech

[ad_1] Facial recognition is both a powerful & problematic frontier—and one Congress needs to get ahead of NOW. @SenBooker & I are demanding a moratorium on federal use until we can be sure people of color won’t be wrongfully targeted, & Americans’ rights to privacy won’t be abused. pic.twitter.com/tIZfgBhZ88 — Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) February […]

US claims Huawei can secretly access carrier backdoors

Post author By Randall
Post date February 11, 2020
Categories In carrier, China, gear, Huawei, Internet, Mobile, Politics, Security, surveillance, Tech, telecom, wireless

[ad_1] Huawei is unique in having this kind of access and doesn’t tell national security agencies, one unnamed official said. The US apparently didn’t start sharing these claims until late 2019, having changed its mind after previously insisting that it didn’t need to provide tangible evidence. It partly declassified some of those assertions, but those […]