On October 5, 2022, a federal jury found Joseph Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, guilty of obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony in connection with his role in responding to a 2016 data breach...more
10/12/2022
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Our 2022 Data Security Incident Response Report discussed the increased regulatory scrutiny of cybersecurity incidents and defenses following a year of high-profile and damaging cyberattacks, including the Russia-based...more
This Update highlights some of the international data protection issues that caught our attention and the attention of our clients over the winter, including updates on European data transfers and cookie compliance,...more
3/15/2022
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Russia
This update highlights some of the international data protection issues that caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, over the summer. Asia-Pacific - China’s Data Security Law and Personal Information...more
After a series of high-profile supply chain and ransomware attacks, the federal government is ramping up its effort to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. In the past several months, multiple federal departments and agencies...more
Organizations around the globe began 2021 grappling with two significant supply-chain attacks. First, the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, planted malicious code in Orion, SolarWinds’ flagship network management...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
3/30/2021
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Web Tracking
On December 13, 2020, SolarWinds disclosed that an unknown attacker compromised its network and inserted malicious code (referred to as the Sunburst vulnerability) into software updates for the Orion platform. In what will...more
Risk scenarios and recommendations -
History tells us that unscrupulous actors will exploit any crisis, and COVID-19 is no exception. ...more
After the Washington Privacy Act (“WPA”) failed to pass in 2019, state legislators promised to renew their efforts in the 2020 legislative session....more
In November 2019, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued its final guidance on territorial scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), following release of the draft guidelines in November 2018 and a...more
Along with the California Consumer Privacy Act, the new year brought us a trio of updated breach notification laws, in Oregon, Texas and Illinois. ...more
Three states recently enacted variations of the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law (MDL-668), based on the landmark cybersecurity requirements issued by the New York...more
On Jan. 17, 2019, a new privacy law was proposed in the Washington state Senate. If passed, the Washington Privacy Act would impose far-reaching responsibilities on companies to protect the privacy of “personal data.” ...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a press release and an investigative report on Oct. 16 cautioning public companies to consider cyber threats when implementing internal accounting controls. ...more
Several weeks ago, South Dakota and Alabama became the final two states to enact data breach notification laws. The Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 takes effect on May 1, 2018, and imposes information security,...more
Many organizations facing a data-security incident struggle to understand how or why their organization was targeted in an attack. Most simply believe they are too small or too obscure to be targeted by malicious cyber...more
Risk assessments are a fundamental part of any organization’s risk management process. But many organizations still do not incorporate true risk assessments into their information-security planning, even though doing so makes...more