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Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Caution! Credential Stuffing on the Rise

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

Fisher Phillips

Ransomware Costs Businesses Record-High $1 Billion in 2023: Your 5-Step Plan to Prevent Attacks in 2024

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2023 was the most devastating year yet for ransomware attacks, with businesses forking over $1 billion in ransom payments for the first time ever – and 2024 is expected to be even worse. Beyond the payments, the average cost...more

Woods Rogers

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Tips On Practicing Basic Cyber Hygiene

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In our first article to kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we will discuss some steps businesses can take to improve their cyber hygiene.  Over the past few years, some of the largest and well-known companies have been...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Staying Secure in the New Hybrid Workplace

Most observers believe that the legal profession is rapidly moving toward so-called “hybrid workplaces,” a term office managers use to describe a mixed-work environment that spans brick-and-mortar law offices, home offices,...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, Cyber & AI...

Encrypt Consumer Data When Your Privacy Policy Says You Encrypt Consumer Data

Once again, we see that inaccurate information in a privacy policy can land an organization in hot water. On June 7, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with MoviePass pertaining to its...more

TransPerfect Legal

The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware: Know Where Your Key Data Lives, Decrease Your Threat Footprint

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The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack was the largest in the energy sector to date, and with cybercrimes up 100% from 2019 to 2020 this is only the beginning for 2021. Many organizations are taking on a digital...more

Onna Technologies, Inc.

How to Maintain CCPA Compliance in the Cloud

As more organizations find themselves under scrutiny for the way they collect and use consumer data, maintaining CCPA compliance has never been more important. CCPA has been introduced to give control back to consumers,...more

Troutman Pepper

Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber

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The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch, and...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Bringing Your Business Online: Written Information Security Programs (WISPs)

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

Fisher Phillips

10-Point Plan To Protect Your Business From Zoom-Bombs And Other Videoconferencing Privacy Concerns

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many employers now operating remotely to conduct meetings via video conference – which has created a whole new set of various privacy and cybersecurity concerns. While these remote work tools...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCAM). NCAM serves as a timely reminder to continue to assess and improve organizational cybersecurity. In honor of NCAM, here are five fundamental steps that every...more

Fisher Phillips

Have You Thought About Encrypting Your Company's Data, And Its Communications? Perhaps You Should

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Alright. So, you’ve battened down the hatches of your company’s premises, to protect your employees and your information. Employees are required to create secret computer passwords they’re not to share with anyone, even...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Recent FTC Settlements Highlight Risks of Flawed Information Security Practices and Related Representations

In a set of recent settlements, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC or Commission) resolved charges against two companies, ClixSense and D-Link, for failing to provide reasonable security and to live up to their data...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

China's Internet Regulator Drafts COPPA-Like Rules for Children's Data Privacy

In early June, the Cyberspace Administration of China released for public comment new draft regulations applicable to the collection of personal information relating to children under 14 by online service providers. The...more

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Security Breaches In Schools: 10 Steps To Protect Your Information

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California’s San Diego Unified School District recently disclosed that it had sustained a data breach when multiple phishing emails from malicious hackers were used to gather login information of staff members throughout the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Court Finds Cybersecurity-Related Claims Sufficient in Securities Class Action

In the aftermath of Equifax’s data breach, a federal court recently found that allegations of poor cybersecurity coupled with misleading statements supported a proper cause of action. In its decision, the U.S. District Court...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Privacy and Data Security Strategies for Start-Up Companies

Start-up companies know that, when potential investors kick the tires, they will look carefully at the company’s business model and IP portfolio. These days, investors are also likely to look at whether the company is in...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Protecting Data While on the Road

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When the world’s cyber-security experts meet at the largest computer security conference in Las Vegas, many of them leave their regular devices at home and either forgo electronics all together or bring burner phones and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

US Breach Laws Are Coming: Vermont

On January 1, 2019 Vermont’s breach notice law will include obligations specific to data brokers. A “data broker” is defined as a business that “knowingly collects and sells or licenses to third parties the brokered personal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

States Taking Actions Against Health IT Companies Over Data Breaches

Twelve state attorneys general have brought suit against two medical Information Technology companies. The AGs allege that the companies, Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC, had poor...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

US Breach Laws Are Coming: Iowa

As we approach 2019, companies will want to keep in mind the changes that are coming to various US states’ breach notice laws. On January 1, 2019 Iowa’s law, which has already been amended twice since it was passed in 2008,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Are You a “Hybrid Entity” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996? The $4,348,000 Question

A single, multidisciplinary entity, like a university, may include certain departments that use PHI, and other departments that do not. Such institutions are eligible to (and should) self-identify as “hybrid entities” to...more

Snell & Wilmer

The Arizona Data Breach Law

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All U.S states have laws about data security and what to do when there’s a data breach. Here is what’s in the Arizona law. Who The Law Applies To. The law applies to anyone who conducts business in Arizona and who owns or...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Summary Judgment: Recent HIPAA Case Emphasizes Encryption, Action on Risk Analysis - AHLA Health Information and Technology...

On June 18, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that an HHS Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) granted summary judgment to OCR in an enforcement action...more

White and Williams LLP

Data Breach Report Reveals Cost Saving Measures for Companies

The Ponemon Institute has released a recent report concluding, among other things, that the cost to a company suffering a data breach in the U.S. has risen eight percent year-on-year from 2017. The total cost of the average...more

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