May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle … Read more
UPDATE, Sep. 19, 2024: Since this article was published, CMS has taken various steps to address the issue of fraudulent enrollments and unauthorized plan/broker changes. By mid-July, CMS had suspended 200 brokers for “reasonable suspicion of fraud or abusive conduct related to unauthorized enrollments or unauthorized plan switching.” CMS has also suspended two EDEs due … Read more
Aug 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Safety SonicWall has launched safety updates to handle a crucial flaw impacting its firewalls that, if efficiently exploited, might grant malicious actors unauthorized entry to the units. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766 (CVSS rating: 9.3), has been described as an improper entry management bug. “An improper entry management vulnerability … Read more