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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more

NAVEX

The True Cost of Cybersecurity Failure – When Technology (and People) Fail

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Picture this: your company's systems are frozen, your data is held hostage and panicked customers flood your phone lines. A simple mistake, an unpatched vulnerability – even when your team was doing all the right things. It...more

Baker Donelson

Hackers Can Securely Enter Your Networks with XZ

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A security researcher found an intentionally placed backdoor in a software library called XZ Utils on April 2. This backdoor allows hackers to hijack secure sessions, or create their own, on devices within an organization's...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home

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Cyber security impacts everyone who has a computer, tablet, mobile device, or on-line presence. With cyber-attacks occurring every day, we are all potential targets who should constantly be monitoring our cyber behaviors. In...more

Tenace

What to Do After a Data Breach: Surviving the First 24 Hours

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Today data breaches are a costly and ever-present danger for businesses in both the public and private sector. Each year, the total number of reported breaches grows 5-10% over the previous year, with over 22 billion records...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

When It Comes to Cybersecurity: Be Prepared!

As has been the trend for some time now, organizations across all industries and sectors are increasingly at risk of being targeted by bad actors online. Now, the adage espoused by IT security professionals is to prepare for...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Busting Cyber Myths Part 2: I Can’t Afford Cyber Protection

In the second of a three-part series, Buckingham Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Attorney David Myers talks with Andy Jones, CEO, Fortress Security Risk Management, and Bryan Schauer, Vice President at The Schauer Group’s...more

Hogan Lovells

Building a resilient tech strategy: Cyber attacks

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Being an innovative business comes with its challenges and legal risks. In recent years, there has been a major increase in cyber attacks, and this is a real risk for every business. Aside from the cyber attack itself,...more

Goldberg Segalla

Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Scourge That Is Business Email Compromise

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In June 2014, the CEO of Omaha-based Scoular Company sent a series of emails to his company’s controller to let him know that the company was in negotiations to buy a Chinese company. The emails highlighted the sensitivity of...more

Opportune LLP

Defense In-Depth: Cybersecurity For Energy

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Glenn Hartfiel, Principal, and Geoff Yut, Consultant, at Opportune LLP discuss why recent geopolitical events are heightening the need for the implementation of improved cybersecurity measures in the energy industry, why...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Construction Industry: Data Security Considerations

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No industry is immune to privacy and cybersecurity risks, and the construction industry is no exception. Those in the construction industry can protect against a potential cyberattack by understanding the risks and...more

Fisher Phillips

Shields Up: 10 Proactive Steps Employers Can Take to Prevent Russian Cybersecurity Attacks

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Tensions have been heightening in the Russia-Ukraine crisis given the Russian military invasion that took place late last night – and while this conflict seems to be thousands of miles away, its effects on your business could...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Don’t Wait for the Perfect Time for a Tabletop Exercise

Threat actors don’t wait for a convenient time to attack your company. They attack when it suits them, and when they can find any small opening. Being prepared for different types of attacks helps companies prepare for the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Discerning Data Cyber Vulnerability Alert: Log4j

According to numerous government and media sources, malicious cyber actors are targeting a new “zero day” vulnerability on a massive scale. This vulnerability, referred to as “Log4j” or “Log4Shell,” has resulted in widespread...more

Fisher Phillips

Recent Data Breach at Twitch Exposes Danger for All Businesses

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This fall has been a busy season for privacy professionals. From public education institutions and hospitals, to online broadcast and streaming platforms, we’ve seen a surge of data breaches that coincides with the upcoming...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Time for a Check-Up: Updates in Data Breach Notification and Reporting

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As the onslaught of data breaches and ransomware attacks continues, state governments are grappling with ways to bolster the impact and reach of breach notification laws. All fifty states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small...

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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

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[Webinar] Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small...

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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

Lighthouse

Cybersecurity Defense: Biden Administration Executive Order a Great Start Towards a More Robust National Framework

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On May 12, President Biden issued a landmark Executive Order (“the Order”) aimed at improving the country’s cybersecurity threat defense. This Order is an attempt to create a “whole of government” response to increasingly...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Cybersecurity Compliance Programs for Law Firms

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Law firms process sensitive information on a daily basis. Confidential client data is targeted by hackers and insiders for a variety of reasons including financial gain or retaliatory purposes. When a law firm has a security...more

Burr & Forman

Your Business Experienced a Ransomware Attack, and It Was Not Prepared – Now What?

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It is hard to find a news post without a story on a ransomware attack. The National Security Council has issued an open letter warning all businesses to be alert and prepared for ransomware attacks.  Various industry groups...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Incident Response Plans and Preparedness

I know I sound like a vinyl record that has a scratch in it, but I write it as I see it. And right now, I am seeing that the companies hit with cyber-attacks, ransomware attacks, double extortion attacks, and data theft are...more

Burr & Forman

Business Exposure to Internet Crime

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Each year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes its Internet Crime Report.  The IC3’s 2020 Internet Crime Report includes startling information about the continuing...more

King & Spalding

Ransomware on the Rise in Critical Infrastructure Sector

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Recent ransomware attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure, which includes the energy sector’s production of oil and natural gas, and other sources of electricity and power, have shed a spotlight on the importance of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Consider Conducting a Virtual Tabletop Exercise

Cyber-hygiene and prevention are sometimes hard to fit in when there are so many vulnerabilities, zero-day attacks and third-party incidents that keep us busy every day....more

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