Two actions in the past few weeks reflect the continuing government involvement in and concern over the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Attacks using connected devices have highlighted security vulnerabilities...more
The recent massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that caused major internet outages was led by an army of security cameras, digital video recorders, and other Internet of Things ("IoT") devices that had been...more
On April 26, 2016, Verizon published its ninth annual Data Breach Investigations Report ("DBIR"), which looks at breach trends, common vulnerabilities, and categories of security incidents that affected organizations in 82...more
On February 25, 2016, the Office of the California Attorney General released its 2016 California Data Breach Report, which contains a compilation and analysis of the information provided to the Attorney General pursuant to...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought over 50 cases against companies that put consumer data at unreasonable risk. On June 30, 2015, the FTC released a guide titled Start with Security that summarizes 10 lessons the...more
Recent widely publicized cyberattacks have made clear that nation-state hackers are now hacking companies for political purposes and they appear to be focused on broadcasters and other media companies....more
As you have probably seen, it was announced on Tuesday, August 5th, that usernames and passwords from 1.2 billion Internet accounts from over 420,000 websites were stolen by a criminal organization in Russia. According to...more