ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app is displayed in the App Store on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020.Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg |…
By Bryan Cunningham, John Grant, Chris Jay Hoofnagle
Friday, June 11, 2021, 12:53 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Van Buren v. United States on June 3 was a significant victory for civil liberties groups, researchers, the defense bar and others troubled by the broad reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) urged by the government. Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett correctly, in our view, struck down the “broad” view of the CFAA in a 6-3 vote. The majority rejected the government’s expansive interpretation of the statute that would have empowered private companies, simply by the way they drafted employee policies or terms of service, to criminalize “a breathtaking amount of commonplace computer activity.” The Van Buren decision established that, going forward, to violate the CFAA, a user must access data from part of a device or network to which the user is not permitted access. This is a far steeper bar than the government’s preferred reading of the CFAA, which would have criminalized “misuse” of data—to which the user had authorized access—under policies dictated by the data owner.
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WJLA.com by Leandra BernsteinThursday, June 3rd 2021 President Joe Biden talks to employees at FEMA headquarters, Monday, May 24, 2021, in Washington. Biden will hold a summit with Vladimir Putin…
UCI News
April 6, 2021
A team of undergraduate students from the cybersecurity club in UCI’s Department of Computer Science is moving on to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition following their recent first-place finish in the Western Regionals against several formidable opponents. Only the winners out of the nine regionals across the nation can directly advance to the national competition.
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By Kevin Costelloe
January 18, 2021
With cybersecurity taking on even greater prominence, the Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine will be undertaking several initiatives to analyze and help counter increasingly dangerous computer threats.
“The UCI Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute will continue our research and scholarship efforts in 2021 to meet the many cybersecurity-related challenges facing Orange County, the United States, and the world,” said CPRI Executive Director Bryan Cunningham.
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by Nicole Fisher
July 28, 2020
With millions of lives and trillions of dollars at stake, the U.S. is in a dangerous place when it comes to vulnerabilities associated with the pandemic – one of which is cybersecurity. To understand just what we’re facing, Forbes asked Bryan Cunningham, long-time cybersecurity and privacy lawyer and Founding Executive Director of the University of California, Irvine Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute, exactly what’s going on, what the focus should be, and what precautions Americans should be taking.
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Join us for an engaging virtual event featuring a keynote by Shabnam Jalakian, Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Vice President of First American Financial Corp., followed by a panel discussion and opportunity to connect as a community.
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By Kevin Costelloe
Monday, June 15, 2020
Bryan Cunningham, head of University of California-Irvine’s cybersecurity institute, says foreign government agents are increasingly trying to swipe information about the hunt for a vaccine for COVID-19, the latest example of hackers targeting those working from home during the pandemic.
(more…)March 6, 2020 Individuals, corporations, governments, and other institutions face unprecedented vulnerabilities in a world where everything is increasingly connected. Bryan Cunningham, Executive Director for the UCI Cybersecurity and Policy Institute was on the show to discuss…
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