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[Webcast Transcript] From Breach to Insight: Incident Response & PII Recovery

HaystackID on 6/6/2024

Editor’s Note: In this informative webcast, Christopher Wall, DPO and Special Counsel for Global Privacy and Forensics at HaystackID, moderates a compelling discussion titled “From Breach to Insight: Incident Response and PII...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 3, March 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/3/2023

Amazon Sued for Not Telling New York Store Customers about Tracking Biometrics - “Thanks to a 2021 law, New York is the only major American city to require businesses to post signs letting customers know they’re tracking...more

Scams and Viruses: Which Email Attachments Are Safe to Open?

Woodruff Sawyer on 8/26/2022

Email scams and viruses are nothing new—threats like phishing emails and malware have been around since the days when services like AOL still dominated the internet and email landscape. However, while technology has made a...more

How to Avoid the Most Common Causes of Cybersecurity Incidents

J.S. Held on 4/29/2022

Cybercrime is at an all-time high, with just the cybercrime insurance industry alone expecting to grow from $8 billion globally in 2020 to $20 billion by 2025.1 Although cyber liability insurance policies now exist to help...more

Privacy Peril: Back It Up

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 4/25/2022

A recent Privacy Peril advised of the increasing cyber risk from nation state attacks, particularly as a result of the war in Ukraine. There is, of course, little we can do to thwart cyber assaults on vital nerve centers....more

Privacy Peril: New Invoice – Action Required!

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 9/17/2021

According to Microsoft, 91% of cyberattacks start with an email. In an earlier Privacy Peril we provided information on prevalent words phishers of men and women insert in an email subject line to grab the recipient’s...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 4. Privacy Briefs: April 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/13/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 4 (April 2021) - A Texas Medicaid subcontractor has been terminated after a data breach caused by a ransomware attack originating from Russia exposed the personal information of tens of...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/2/2021

CYBERSECURITY - GAO Report Identifies Need for DOE to Address Risks to Electrical Distribution System - The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently completed and published a study on electricity...more

[Virtual Event] U.S. Export & Reexport Compliance For Canadian Operations - January 26th - 27th, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 11/30/2020

For a whole decade, ACI’s U.S. Export & Reexport Compliance for Canadian Operations conference continues to stand apart as the only practical, comprehensive event of its kind for the export compliance community in Canada. ...more

Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/30/2020

We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

Beware of phishing schemes relating to aviation escrow matters

McAfee & Taft on 10/19/2020

The McAfee & Taft Aviation Group has recently seen an increase in the number of phishing schemes relating to aviation escrow matters. Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, such as...more

Cybersecurity and Arbitration: Protecting Your Documents and Ensuring Confidentiality

TransPerfect Legal on 10/2/2020

Legal Cybersecurity - One of the core advantages that drives parties to arbitrate is the promise of confidentiality. Unlike public court proceedings, arbitrations provide parties with a private forum through which to air and...more

Beware Compromised Business Email... and the Litigation that Follows

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 5/2/2020

Businesses are facing this system hack with ever-increasing frequency: An accounts payable employee receives new or updated payment instructions from a vendor via email. The email appears to be from a familiar counterpart at...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/14/2020

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

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

Privacy Perils: Black Friday Blues

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/27/2019

With the holiday season fast-approaching, thrifty shoppers across the country will soon be looking to spend (and save) their hard-earned money during what is arguably the busiest shopping weekend of the year, spanning Black...more

Putting Data Security First: 3 Simple Steps

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 11/4/2019

The bad news first. An estimated 3.5 million cybersecurity positions will be unfilled globally by 2021.* Leaving data security entirely up to the professionals isn’t a viable option. Like it or not we’re all on the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/29/2019

Security research firm Gigamon has reported that the nasty cybercriminal group FIN8 may have reappeared in June after a two-year silence. FIN8 is known for implementing malware on point of sale systems to steal credit card...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2019 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 2/25/2019

We predicted last year that hackers would become more malicious in the future, not only stealing and selling data for nefarious purposes, but actually destroying data and even systems. That reality hit email provider VFEmail...more

Recent Developments in Cybersecurity….What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/14/2019

Criminal masterminds are constantly re-envisioning their weapon of choice. International cyberattacks perpetuated through the use of leaked nation-state cyber tools, shaped many security discussions in 2018, but a new year...more

Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

Fisher Phillips on 1/29/2019

For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

Privacy And Cybersecurity Issues To Watch In 2019

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/8/2019

Privacy and cybersecurity risks continue to emerge for organizations large and small. While by no means exhaustive, we briefly discuss some key issues that organizations may need to focus on in 2019 and beyond....more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/22/2018

This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more

Seven Steps to Stay Safe Online in the Workplace

White and Williams LLP on 10/22/2018

Ensuring the online safety and security of a workplace is only possible through the joint efforts of all the employees using a company’s computer systems. The failure to maintain a secure network environment can result in...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 8/2/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine California's new sweeping privacy law, two U.S. agencies' report on "botnet" threats and the European Parliament's call to suspend the Privacy Shield....more

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