A new amendment to the Israeli Supervisor of Banks’ directive on money laundering and terror financing risks states that Israeli baking corporations may no longer refuse to provide payment services in transactions merely because they involve cryptocurrency, so long as the cryptocurrency service provider in the transaction is duly licensed to provide services in Israel. The amended directive further states ...

North Carolina became the first state in the U.S. to enact a law that prohibits state and local public agencies from engaging with ransomware hackers demanding ransom, and from paying them any ransom. Under the new statute, upon an agency’s discovery of ransomware in its systems, it must report the incident to the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (DoIT) ...

On remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reaffirmed the District Court’s preliminary injunction banning LinkedIn from blocking hiQ, a Californian start-up, from accessing LinkedIn’s website through automated means.

The ongoing feud between LinkedIn and hiQ began a few years ago when LinkedIn sent hiQ a cease and deceased ...