No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
Monumental Win in Data Breach Class Action: A Case Study — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
Snooping Sadia Talks to Former Official Gene Fishel — Unauthorized Access Podcast
Life With GDPR: Critical Perspectives on Big Law Firm Cybersecurity
No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: How International and Domestic Regulatory Enforcement Spotlights the Information Governance Tensions Between ‘There’ and ‘Here’ and Between ‘Keep’ and ‘Delete’
Marketing Minute with NP Strategy (Video): How to Respond to a Cyber Security Breach
Life With GDPR – Lessons Learned from The Singtel Opus Data Breach
State AG Pulse | CT AG Reacts to Genetic Data Breach
Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports
2023 DSIR Deeper Dive: State Privacy and Data Collection
Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Report, a must-read publication, was published on May 1, 2024. The report indicates that “Over the past 10 years, the use of stolen credentials has appeared in almost one-third (31%) of all...more
Valuable insights into the measures European regulators expect businesses to take to protect data privacy can be found in a report from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) summarizing decisions under the EU’s General...more
If you have a tendency to reuse the same password across multiple accounts, you could be leaving yourself (and your organization) exposed to risk. Credential stuffing, the stealthy technique fueling a recent explosion of...more
Why does it matter to you? In February of 2024, Change Healthcare, a prominent player in the healthcare industry, fell victim to a ransomware attack that sent shockwaves through its systems and networks. The incident...more
Dr. Diana Burley has nearly 30 years of experience leading digital transformations and driving cross-sector education, research, and strategic innovation. As American University’s chief research and innovation officer, she is...more
In honor of Data Privacy Week, each day this week Miller Nash is releasing one of our top five recommendations for where businesses should focus their privacy compliance efforts in 2024. If you need assistance reviewing your...more
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
This article is the second in a series of articles about Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout October, K2 Integrity will be providing tips and solutions to organizations to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the...more
It’s been several years since I have written about password hygeine. I have been hoping that a better security solution would be widely adopted and while I hear rumors in that regard, passwords still reign supreme. So when I...more
In August 2022, LastPass – one of the largest password managers in the world – suffered a cyber breach resulting in the theft of thousands of password vaults of both individual and corporate users. Password managers are an...more
There are pros and cons to using a password manager. The biggest pro is that it is difficult to keep all of our passwords organized and safe. The biggest con is that if the password manager is compromised, and the master...more
October was a busy month in New York for cybersecurity enforcement. In addition to a $4.5 million settlement between the New York Department of Financial Services and EyeMed Vision Care (discussed in a forthcoming blog post),...more
On October 12, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James fined Zoetop Business Company, Ltd. (“Zoetop”), the owner of fast-fashion brands SHEIN and ROMWE, $1.9 million for mishandling a 2018 data breach and lying to the...more
Creating passwords needs to be a challenge, not for you to remember but for others to guess. Yet, the digital world is changing. A single sign-on password is pretty easy for unsavory characters to hack. Statistics indicate in...more
With the recent announcement by LastPass that it was hacked, and source code was compromised (LastPass is reporting that no passwords were compromised), I thought it timely to remind readers about the pros and cons of using a...more
Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of users were compromised in the incident, unfortunately, its source...more
For those engaged in eDiscovery, protecting companies’ sensitive data is only increasing in importance. Each year, the odds that a company or its law firm will experience a data breach grow. According to the Identity...more
Dr. Melissa Dark is the Founder of DARK Enterprises, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and supporting cybersecurity education at the secondary level. Before that, Dr. Dark worked in graduate and college...more
Do you use 123456 as a password? We hope not, as it was the number one most common leaked password on the dark web according to a recent article from cnbc.com. Other common passwords were 111111, ABC123, and, of course,...more
Passwords are so difficult to remember. We all know we shouldn’t use the same or similar passwords across platforms. Stolen password credentials are dumped on the dark web and criminals use the stolen passwords to steal other...more
CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more
When you are educating your employees about the importance of maintaining a complex password or passphrase, share this story to show why it is so important and to emphasize not to use same or similar passphrases across...more
CYBERSECURITY - FBI, CISA + NSA Issue Conti Ransomware Advisory - On September 22, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security...more
With almost daily news of top firms impacted by data breaches or ransomware attacks, there is no doubt that effective cybersecurity and data privacy are essential to any business. And small businesses are not immune....more
Credential stuffing is a growing cyberattack method in which cybercriminals use a set of thousands of compromised user credentials, stolen from one company, to attempt a breach into another company’s secured system. It is...more