Today is Data Privacy Day!
Not much detail here.
Wendy's Is
Looking Into Reports of a Credit Card Breach
Burger chain operator Wendy‘s said on Wednesday
it was investigating reports of unusual activity with payment cards
used at some of its 5,700 locations in the U.S.
(Related) Krebs is better connected.
Wendy’s
Probes Reports of Credit Card Breach
When KrebsOnSecurity initially began hearing from
banking industry sources about a possible breach at Wendy’s, the
reports were coming mainly from financial institutions in the
midwest.
However, this author has since heard similar reports from banks on
the east coast
on the United States.
Spend too much time in D.C. and all that sea-level
oxygen rots your brain?
Cory Bennett reports:
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on Wednesday called on his colleagues to move a bill that would strengthen the government’s ability to sanction North Korea for hacking.
“North Korea’s repeated acts of aggression and hostility call for stronger sanctions,” Bennet said in a statement.
The bill, known as the North Korea Sanctions Act, would also empower the government to sanction property and seize funds from the organizations and individuals supporting Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Read more on The
Hill.
[From
the article:
Bennet's measure mirrors a bill from Sen. Cory
Gardner (R-Colo.), who
chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and
cybersecurity.
Gardner's legislation, the so-called North Korean
Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act, would
force President Obama to create a strategy to thwart
and sanction North Korean hackers.
It's politics, not logic.
Conservative attorney and thinker Mark J.
Fitzgibbons is unhappy. In an OpEd in the Washington Examiner, he
writes:
California Attorney General Kamala Harris must be so ambitious that she is willing to tempt fate of multiple civil lawsuits and even criminal charges so she can intimidate her ideological opponents — and even her supporters. Ms. Harris oversees licensing of charities across the country that ask Californians for contributions. She’s also a candidate for the United States Senate.
In disregard of the 1958 landmark civil rights decision NAACP v. Alabama and post-Watergate reforms to the Internal Revenue Code to protect tax information privacy, Ms. Harris is now telling charities and other nonprofit organizations that in order to get from her a charitable solicitation license they must first provide her office a confidential federal tax schedule listing their most valuable donors.
Read more on Washington
Examiner.
[From
the article:
Harris is an uber-liberal Democrat. Knowing the
names of donors to causes not only allows her to target individuals
who are on the opposite side of her ideology, but lets her know which
Democrats may have contributed to causes she opposes. Besides
its lawlessness, what Ms. Harris is doing is just plain creepy.
Not very specific as to what they were marketing.
Kevin Lessmiller reports:
LexisNexis and a police reports website obtained North Carolina Motor Vehicle Department records and illegally used them for marketing purposes, a class action lawsuit claims.
Deloris and Leonard Gaston are licensed drivers living in Charlotte, N.C., who say they were involved in car accidents in Mecklenburg County.
The Gastons sued LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. and PoliceReports.US LLC earlier this month in North Carolina Federal Court. The class action complaint was filed on behalf of a proposed class of people whose motor vehicle records were obtained by LexisNexis and PoliceReports without their consent.
Read more on Courthouse
News.
Perspective. Does this explain why Facebooks
wants everyone in the whole world to have access to Facebook for
free?
This is how
much money you’re worth to Facebook
The social network reported
its earnings for its fourth quarter and all of 2015 on Wednesday,
revealing in a presentation that it makes an
average of $3.73 off of each user around the world. In
the United States and Canada, that figure is $13.54,
up from $10.49 from the third quarter. That's largely thanks to
an increase in mobile and video views — an impressive statistic,
considering both are relatively new ventures for Facebook.
… The company also reported that it's making
more money than ever from mobile advertising, which now accounts for
80 percent of its revenue. At the end of 2014, mobile advertising
comprised just 69 percent of Facebook's ad revenue.
Could this be real? Do they form the breading and
then insert the cheese? Curious.
Some
McDonald's Mozzarella Sticks Are Missing the Cheese
A lot of McDonald’s customers are complaining
that the fast food chain’s new mozzarella sticks are seriously
lacking in mozzarella.
People have taken to Twitter to share their ire,
accusing the restaurant of selling them what appear to be just fried
bread crumbs that are hollowed out and filled with nothing but
disappointment.
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