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Retention of corporate email metadata, news from the Italian Data Protection Authority

Hogan Lovells on 8/13/2024

The Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali”) published a provision in which it established that some services for e-mail management are configured to collect and store metadata...more

[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

Gone Phishing – Vigilance in the New Scam Era - Kattison Avenue | Issue 12

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/1/2024

"Thank you for your order." "We tried delivering your package." We have all seen these subject lines in our inbox, but some are not so innocent. Business impersonation scams are not new, but some of their tricks are. These...more

Immediate vs. Slow Burn Risks: A Balanced Cybersecurity Strategy

NAVEX on 4/25/2024

The consequences of a cyberattack can be catastrophic, as we saw in the previous blog of this series. Cybersecurity is a business-wide responsibility that demands a proactive strategy extending far beyond technical solutions...more

A New Twist on Coverage for Losses From ‘Spoofed’ Emails

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 4/12/2024

The facts are frequently the same. A company that has retained the services of a vendor receives an authentic-looking email from the vendor’s CFO which advises that the vendor has changed its bank account or method of...more

Defending Your Law Firm Against Cyber Threats

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 4/9/2024

In an increasingly digitized world, law firms are prime targets for sophisticated cyber threats that can result in substantial financial losses and reputational damage. Recently, a prominent law firm, esteemed for its...more

FTC Releases Privacy and Data Security Update

BakerHostetler on 4/1/2024

On March 28, 2024, the FTC released its annual Privacy and Data Security Update (Update), which highlights the enforcement actions, guidance, and rules promulgated by the agency from 2021 through 2023 to protect consumer data...more

Cybersecurity for Trustees: How to Reduce Risk and Respond to an Incident

Woodruff Sawyer on 3/19/2024

We often remind our clients about the importance of taking cybersecurity measures. In response, we frequently hear the question, “How can I suffer a cyber loss if I don’t have custody of the funds?”...more

Data Breaches up 72% From Record High: Cyber Incident Readiness Must be Top of Mind

Epiq on 3/13/2024

“Protect your data! Breaches are on the rise!” These warnings seem to be everywhere – and rightfully so. Threat actors are sophisticated and new breach trends are constantly materializing. Awareness is no longer enough. It...more

Cyber Bullets for Small Law Firms

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 2/27/2024

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, all organizations are facing an onslaught of cybersecurity threats. According to recent research, victims of cyber attacks paid out a record $1.1 billion last year and have already...more

Safeguarding Against the Rise of Deepfake Scams: What Employers and Employees Need to Know

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 2/19/2024

A recent deepfake scam has rocked the financial landscape of Hong Kong, demonstrating the extreme lengths to which cybercriminals are willing to go to defraud unsuspecting victims. This sophisticated scheme, which saw...more

Business Email Compromise: The Most Prevalent – and Preventable – Cyber Risk

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/25/2024

Ransomware attacks that shut business down to zero and data breaches that disclose the personal information of customers, vendors and employees justifiably strike fear in the hearts of executives everywhere. Organizations can...more

AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/5/2024

Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more

Top ten cybersecurity tips for organizations during the holiday season

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 12/18/2023

‘Tis the season for the hustle and bustle of year-end holiday activities. With that comes the increased risk of cybercriminals exploiting the season to find vulnerabilities. This includes taking advantage of increased online...more

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series: Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/31/2023

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month wraps up, it’s worth mentioning that employee security awareness training is an ongoing process. Employee error remains a significant contributing factor in data breaches. According to the...more

Be Cyber Aware

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 10/31/2023

Hackers commit financial fraud by creating a fake email address mimicking the vendor’s name and emailing accounts payable saying that the vendor’s account information has been changed. Funds are then sent directly to the...more

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Evading Phishing Attacks

K2 Integrity on 10/26/2023

This article concludes K2 Integrity’s mini-series promoting the importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout October, we have been providing tips and solutions to organizations to commemorate the 20-year...more

NIH Federal Credit Union Notifies 14,706 Members of Data Breach

Console and Associates, P.C. on 7/7/2023

On July 5, 2023, the National Institutes of Health Federal Credit Union filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine following the company’s discovery that an unauthorized party was able to get into an...more

ARx Patient Solutions Files Notice of Data Breach Affecting 41,116 Individuals Following Compromised Email Account

Console and Associates, P.C. on 7/6/2023

On June 30, 2023, ARx Patient Solutions filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Maine after discovering that an employee’s M365 email account was accessed by an unauthorized party. In this notice, ARx...more

Insurance Coverage for Email Scams

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 6/22/2023

A genuine looking email is sent to a company’s accounts payable department with instructions from its president to pay money to a certain account. The “To” and “From” headers and the signature block look identical to hundreds...more

As If Bank Failures Aren’t Enough – Hackers Are Exploiting the Chaos to Breach Security

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/9/2023

The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more

Cyberattacks and Construction – A Hard Hit Industry

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/10/2023

When you hear the word cyberattack you think of attacks on banks, large box stores, or medical facilities. You should add the construction industry to that list because it is the third most common target for cyberattacks....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

As social engineering email attacks increase in sophistication, employee training and awareness rise to the forefront

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 3/20/2023

The Nigerian prince seems almost quaint. Gone are the days when the Nigerian prince was the only nefarious figure menacing our inboxes. A simple yet elegant scheme – our supposed prince unexpectedly fell upon a large sum...more

Updated DOJ Guidance on Devices and Ephemeral Messaging

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 3/17/2023

On March 3, 2023, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued long-awaited guidelines on how it will evaluate whether companies have implemented appropriate guidance and controls on the use of personal devices and third-party...more

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