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KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC)

Midyear observations on the board agenda - Based on insights from the 2024 Board Leadership Conference

Approaching midyear, business leaders are bullish on growth and the opportunities ahead. At the same time, the macro forces of GenAI, climate change, a multipolar geopolitical landscape and the erosion of trust and healthy...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New cyber threat to US critical infrastructure

Last week the FBI Director, CISA Director, NSA Director, and National Cyber Director testified publicly about current and ongoing threats to US critical infrastructure providers by Chinese state-sponsored entities known as...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA Lists Top CVEs Exploited by Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an Alert outlining the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that have been used by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored...more

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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - August 2022

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Ransomware/Malware Activity - Twitter Confirms Data Breach Affecting 5.4 Million Account Profiles - On August 5, 2022, Twitter confirmed it has suffered a data breach after receiving a report of a vulnerability through...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Chinese APT41 Attacking State Networks - Although we are receiving frequent alerts from CISA and the FBI about the potential for increased cyber threats coming out of Russia, China continues its cyber...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

[Webinar] From The China Initiative to Nation-State Threats: The US Government’s New Enforcement Priority – China + Russia - March...

On February 23, 2022, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced that the DOJ’s China Initiative was officially ending. He also announced DOJ’s new national security strategy - Strategy for Countering Nation-State...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

FBI: More Awareness, Due Diligence Needed To Fight China in New ‘Space Race’ for Data

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - Conducting a risk analysis is a basic tenet of security compliance, with the overarching goal of understanding where protected health information (PHI) “lives” in an...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #281 – Preparing for Cyber Warfare: A Survival List

The United States government, states, municipalities, and private companies all have been trying to defend themselves from cyber warfare from foreign adversarial governments, including Russia, China, and North Korea, for...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

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Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber Criminals Using Coronavirus Concern to Assist with Intrusions

Concern over the spreading coronavirus from China is legitimate and real. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, and the United States and other countries are limiting...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Privacy Developments in China, Singapore and Hong Kong

International companies should keep in mind recent developments coming out of Asia on the privacy front. Chinese authorities are reported to be confiscating smartphones at the border to install surveillance apps. Companies...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 5.24.2019 | Top Story: White House plans $16 billion in farm aid amidst ongoing trade war

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The US’s ongoing trade war with China—which just isn’t going away any time soon—has prompted the White House to propose a new “$16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by Beijing’s tariffs.” At the same time, leaders from both...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Government Issues Report on Huawei Vulnerabilities

On March 28, 2019, the Oversight Board of the United Kingdom’s Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) released a report identifying “serious and systematic defects in Huawei’s software engineering and cyber security...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFocus: Our Insights into the Risk + Crisis Landscape - Vol.1 Issue. 2

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Arrest of a Chinese National on Hacking Charges Illustrates How U.S. Tactics Are Changing to Meet the New Cyber Threat - In August, Yu Pingan, a Chinese national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to acquire and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Top Trends to Watch for in 2016

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Cybersecurity - Manufacturers continued to face challenges and find opportunities related to cybersecurity in 2015, and those trends can only be expected to intensify in 2016. New laws and new threats have either...more

King & Spalding

U.S., China Announce Cybersecurity Agreement During Xi Jiping’s Visit

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Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to the United States last week, and his itinerary included meetings with U.S. technology company leaders as well as President Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, his hosts...more

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Project CAMERASHY Details Cyberespionage By China’s Military

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In a story reminiscent of a Tom Clancy plot, the Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday on “meticulously documented” cyberespionage conducted by China’s People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) Unit 78020 to further strategic...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Monday – July 2015

Welcome to the dog days of summer 2015. Three privacy & security bits and bytes to start your week (if you are reading this on vacation … good for you!) 1. ICYMI: Massive Data Breach at OPM Claims Victim — The Director...more

Carlton Fields

The War Against Cyber Threats: President Obama Ups the Ante

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Focusing on overseas cyber threats, President Obama issued an Executive Order on April 1, 2015, which grants authorization to impose sanctions on individuals and entities engaged "in malicious cyber-enabled activities that...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

United States Charges China with Cyber-Espionage in Unprecedented Indictment

This morning, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted five Chinese military officials on charges of computer hacking, economic espionage, and...more

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