On August 20, 2020, a criminal complaint was filed charging Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with an alleged attempted cover-up of a...more
We are increasingly seeing situations in which a client’s information systems are breached by an ethical hacker. Typically, they take a screen shot or two of data to prove their accomplishment, carefully redact any...more
Almost weekly, it seems there is another news article about a bug bounty program sponsored by a major corporation where an amateur hacker – often a teenager – is paid a sizeable sum of money for finding a bug in a company’s...more
More and more companies are paying up – and paying more – to so-called “ethical” hackers who report data security bugs or vulnerabilities for a bounty. A report released last week by Bugcrowd, a crowdsourced cybersecurity...more
Data security officers typically look for security risks by monitoring reports from automated security systems, listening to employees’ reports of security issues, and/or auditing IT systems. There is a great deal of debate,...more
Jeep/Fiat has been sued by a putative class alleging that they were harmed as a result of researchers’ ability to hack into a Jeep and take control of it. Jeep/Fiat filed a motion to dismiss, stating that the owners suffered...more