Password stealing malware has been targeting Microsoft’s Outlook Web Application (OWA), MediaPost reports, and Cybereason, a security firm, reports hackers have accessed more than 11,000 usernames and passwords. Hackers placed a backdoor DLL file on the OWA server that allowed…
By Maria Shinkevich, CMO, MGID April 21, 2015. Somewhere deep within the halls of a sprawling Mountain View Googleplex corporate campus, some buttons were pressed and with a single motion, the algorithm changed. Legions of online publishers watched as the…
There’s nothing quite like SCOTUSblog. Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who practices before the U.S. Supreme Court, started it on a whim, as a way to promote his firm. But 11 years later, it’s recognized for covering the U.S. Supreme Court…
It’s been more than three decades since newsletters won the right to — sometimes — get the passes needed to cover Congress. But the battle between old media, such as newspapers and wire services — and new media, i.e., specialty…
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and eight media organizations have filed a brief in D.C. appeals court arguing for a ruling that would take a broad view of who is a “representative of the news media” when it…
We were sorry to learn from SIPA the passing of Dan Schwartz, a member of SIPA’s board, from a years-long battle with brain cancer. We knew Dan as a SIPA Foundation board member when he was senior publisher at Wolters…
I received a note from Dun & Bradstreet today. It said that “on 11/01/2013 your company’s credit file was purchased by a business interested in reviewing your D&B business scores and ratings. Our records indicate the company that purchased your business credit file is in the following industry: Miscellaneous Publishing, Nsk.”
I have no idea what’s in that file, but I do know it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. We don’t snoop on other companies, and we don’t help others snoop on us. If someone wants to know something about our business, they should contact us directly. If there’s a need to know, we can be very open. Otherwise, we are more close-mouthed than the CIA.
We routinely refuse inquiries from Dun & Bradstreet and have for more than 15 years. Anything that may be in our D&B file is most likely pure fiction.
On October 18, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a resounding and unequivocal victory for publishers who post mugshots on their websites according to LawMark.com. In Jamali v. Maricopa County, et al., No. 2:13-cv-00613-DGC (9th…
Though many provisions from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have gone into effect, there remain some important requirements and dates that employers need to be aware of in the coming months and years. DATE: October 1, 2013 RULE: NOTICE ABOUT…
