A security researcher has blamed misconfigured implementations of Microsoft Power Pages for a slew of data breaches from web portals – including the leak of 1.1 million NHS employee records. It’s the latest discovery by Dublin-based security researcher Aaron Costello, who previously discovered the health and personal details of over a million citizens had been … Read more
A jury has awarded the city of Baltimore $266 million in damages in its suit against pharmaceutical firms McKesson and AmerisourceBergen for their part in the city’s opioid epidemic. With the jury award, the city has notched another win for its strategy of opting out of a national opioid settlement and pursuing opioid cases on … Read more
During her tenure, Vestager has repeatedly targeted the world’s biggest tech companies, with some of the toughest actions against tech giants such as Apple, Google and Microsoft. The EU Commission on Thursday said Meta is “dominant in the market for personal social networks (…) as well as in the national markets for online display advertising … Read more
BioNTech, the German developer of a widely used mRNA vaccine for the coronavirus, agreed to pay US$800 million (HK$6.24 billion) to buy biotech company Biotheus, a developer of cancer drugs. In a statement on Wednesday, Mainz-based BioNTech said it signed a definitive agreement to pay mostly cash for 100 per cent of Biotheus, which is … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP and Nathans & Biddle, LLP reached a historic $48 million settlement in the case of three Baltimore men who were wrongfully convicted at age 16 of the 1983 murder of DeWitt Duckett at Harlem Park Junior High School. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins—known as the Harlem Park Three—were … Read more
