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CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/25/2024

If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

Q2 - 2023: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Quarterly Briefing

Benesch on 8/7/2023

Efforts to Address the Lack of Federal Data Privacy Legislation in the U.S. Have Continued - The need for federal data privacy legislation was reiterated in the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/16/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Cyber Beware: E-Gaming and Cyber-Criminality

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 5/3/2022

Recent events illustrate that the e-gaming industry—developers, publishers, esports leagues and teams, and the financial machinations behind them—are significant targets for cyberattacks, theft and cyber-criminality....more

Privacy Tip #258 – Misinformation on Social Media

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/6/2020

The misinformation on social media about the election results (and other topics) is rampant. Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook are struggling with the balance between the First Amendment right to free speech...more

Bringing Your Business Online: Cyber Insurance

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP on 7/17/2020

The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses online in order to survive. In many cases, businesses had no plans to be online. Others were forced to move online more quickly than planned. In order to assist these...more

Privacy Perils: The Expensive New Threat

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 1/3/2020

By now, you’ve heard a horror story or two about ransomware. The city of Baltimore’s tale stands out. After cyber-criminals attacked the city’s servers and applications, they demanded $76,000 to decrypt the affected files....more

Cybersecurity Awareness Month may be over – but threats are year round

K2 Integrity on 11/11/2019

Cybersecurity Awareness Month may have ended on October 31, but cyber criminals are active 365 days a year, and they’re online looking for vulnerabilities around the clock. Every day, we also spend time online: navigating the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/14/2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more

Privacy Tip #208 – Last Pass Patches Bug that Leaks Passwords

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/20/2019

I am not a big fan of putting all of one’s passwords in one place, but many people use password managers. If you use Last Pass (see previous blog posts about Last Pass here and here), be aware that it was recently advised by...more

Twenty Years Under the Microscope: A Small Business, a Data Breach and the FTC

Sunstein LLP on 8/30/2019

James Grago has a nice business going. He runs a website called ClixSense.com that permits users to earn money by completing surveys and watching advertisements. Revenues grew from $6.7 million in 2015 to $9.1 million in...more

Cyber Security: NCSC warns over global DNS hijacking

Hogan Lovells on 7/26/2019

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an organisation of the UK Government that provides cybersecurity advice and support for the public and private sector, published an article earlier this year relating to a recent...more

Is Your Ecommerce Site Secure for the Holidays?

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/28/2018

The holiday season is here again and it is a prime time for cybercriminals to target websites to steal sensitive data. On Cyber Monday alone, online transactions are set to exceed last year’s record of $6.59 billion. Manatt...more

Privacy Perils: Cybersecurity Spans the Ages

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/9/2018

Thinking about cyber security education for young children, elderly parents and grandparents might not be necessarily be on the top of your priority list. But, it is important given the substantial increase in malware and...more

Privacy Tip #159 – Consider Risks When Using Facebook and Other Social Media Platforms

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/5/2018

Facebook announced late last week that it had suffered the largest breach in its history—50 million accounts were compromised, and another 40 million accounts affected—yes, that equals 90 million accounts. ...more

Has Your Computer Been Hijacked For Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining?

Snell & Wilmer on 6/27/2018

Another day, and another form of hacking comes to light. On June 26, 2018, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), an agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued a security tip...more

Small and Mid-Sized Companies are the New Targets of Business Email Compromise

Womble Bond Dickinson on 3/5/2018

Originally published in the Upstate Business Journal on February 15, 2018. Meet Peter — a longtime employee and the backbone of your business’s day-to-day finance and accounting operations. Today he got an email from the...more

Thirty-Six Individuals Charged In Global Cybercrime Ring “Infraud”

King & Spalding on 2/16/2018

The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently indicted thirty-six individuals leading a global cybercrime ring for allegedly trafficking in stolen personal and financial information....more

Connecticut Cyber Task Force Announced

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/28/2017

The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Connecticut has announced the creation of a Connecticut Cyber Task Force (“CCTF”) in partnership with the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, Homeland Security, IRS, Connecticut State...more

Imgur Discloses Breach Affecting Email and Passwords of 1.7 Million Users

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/27/2017

On November 24, 2017, image-sharing website Imgur disclosed that email addresses and passwords of 1.7 million users were stolen in a 2014 hack on the company. Imgur became aware of the breach on November 23, 2017 when a...more

Ashley Madison Settles Data Breach Case for $11.2M

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/21/2017

Ashley Madison, which suffered a data breach in 2015 involving the loss of 37 million users’ personal and financial information, has settled the suit for $11.2 million....more

FTC Launches Website to Help Small Businesses with Cyber Attacks

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/12/2017

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on May 9, 2017, that it has launched a new website that “helps small businesses avoid scams and cyber-attacks.”...more

Qakbot: Insight into a Persistent, Polymorphic Malware from the Cyber Defense Team at K2 Intelligence

K2 Integrity on 4/28/2017

Qakbot (Qbot) first emerged in 2009 as a piece of malware designed to steal online banking credentials from infected computers. It used classic key-logger technology combined with an ability to steal active session...more

Sony Cyber-Attackers Lurking at Financial Supervisor “Watering Hole” Target Banks and Others

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/22/2017

Cybersecurity specialists at BAE Systems and Symantec announced last week new evidence suggesting that the criminals behind the notorious 2014 attack on Sony Corp. are also responsible for recent cyber-attacks involving 104...more

Affair Website Ashley Madison Fined $8.75 Million Over Data Breach, Misrepresentations

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/16/2016

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners and operators of AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people interested in having discreet affairs, related to the...more

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