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Immediate vs. Slow Burn Risks: A Balanced Cybersecurity Strategy

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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

Jackson Lewis P.C.

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

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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

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Top ten cybersecurity tips for organizations during the holiday season

‘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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Cyberattacks and Construction – A Hard Hit Industry

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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Peril: Stealers Wheel (Stuck in the Middle with You)

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In one type of “man-in-the-middle” (MITM or MTM) attack, a bad actor inserts himself between a user (individual or business) and a web application (such as a bank’s website) to capture sensitive or personal confidential...more

J.S. Held

How to Avoid the Most Common Causes of Cybersecurity Incidents

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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

K2 Integrity

Cyber Predictions 2022

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Where We Stand - This year kicks off against the backdrop of the security flaw found in Log4j, a system-logging code library widely used in applications and services across the Internet. In the aftermath of this crisis, a...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Fraudulent Wire Transfers: Who Bears the Loss and How to Prevent Becoming A Victim

Cybercriminals exploited remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic.  In 2020, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) saw a record 70% increase in the number of reported internet scams and losses exceeding $4.2...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Microsoft Warns of Tricky O365 Phishing Attack

If you are an organization that uses Microsoft Office 365 as your email platform, be on the lookout for a new tricky phishing attack recently used by cyber criminals. ...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

Phishing Preparedness: What Does a Risk Manager Recommend?

Carly Franks, Senior IT Security Risk & Compliance Analyst at Mitratech, has more good guidance to offer on the subject of phishing, so your employees can stymie the fraudsters out to purloin personal data. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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 2021 will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds, down from every 14 seconds in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Iranian Cyber-Attacks and the End of Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

After the killing of Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, by the U.S. government, the cybersecurity news industry has been abuzz about whether Iran will engage in cyber terrorism, and if so, to what degree, as part of its...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

'Tis the Season for Spoofed Greetings

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Risk Management Question - What steps can law firms take to guard against greeting e-card scams? The Issue - Winter is coming, and along with it, your employees may start receiving holiday e-cards on their work...more

King & Spalding

AI Driven "Deepfakes" Expose Holes in Corporate Compliance Programs: The Road to Recovery

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Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has made astounding advancements in recent years. Driven by incredible computing power, AI has the potential to change nearly every industry. AI is touted as having the potential to reduce...more

Holland & Hart LLP

3 Tips to Protect Real Estate Agents & Firms from Cybercrime

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Did you know Americans lost nearly $150 million dollars to real estate internet scams last year? That makes real estate cyber crime a greater risk to Americans than identity theft ($100 million in losses) or credit card fraud...more

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

Business Email Compromises Bilking U.S. Companies Out of $301M Per Month

The United States Treasury Department came out with a report last week that concludes that business email compromises (BEC) are costing U.S. companies more than $301 million per month. The report confirms that the two...more

Fisher Phillips

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

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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Test Your Employees with Internal Phishing Campaigns

Phishing campaigns continue to be one of the most successful ways for malicious intruders to access company information, including personal information of employees and customers. Phishing emails continue to get more and more...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The SEC Issues Warnings to Companies to Review Controls to Prevent Wire Fraud Hacking Attempts

In an October 16, 2018 investigation report, the Securities and Exchange Commission found that nine companies that suffered Business Email Compromise, or BEC, had insufficient internal controls to prevent such attacks....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Special Report: Rampant Business Email Compromises Require Reassessment of Internal Accounting Controls

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the government chorus in sounding the alarm about the rapid rise in "business email compromises" that are victimizing organizations across industry sectors....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Don’t Let Spoofing Fool You – SEC Says Internal Accounting Controls Should Address Cyber Threats

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On October 16, 2018, the SEC released an Investigative Report detailing recent email spoofing schemes that caused nine public companies to lose a total of nearly $100 million. Building on its February 2018 guidance about the...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Strategies for Protecting Against Vendor Payment Fraud

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Cybercrime is an ever-increasing threat from which manufacturers are not immune. Although reliable statistics are not available, one particular type of scheme that seems to be on the rise is vendor payment fraud. In cases of...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Small and Mid-Sized Companies are the New Targets of Business Email Compromise

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Originally published in the Upstate Business Journal on February 15, 2018. Meet Peter — a longtime employee and the backbone of your business’s day-to-day finance and accounting operations. Today he got an email from the...more

Dickinson Wright

Phishing Lures: What To Do If You’ve Taken The Bait - U.S. Version

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Sometimes, it’s easy to know you’re being phished. There’s little chance that a bank administrator in a country you’ve never heard of really needs your help to get the unclaimed money of a deceased, rich foreigner out of the...more

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Helping To Protect Your Company From A Cyber-Attack: Eight Tips For Human Resources Professionals And In-House Employment Counsel

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Recent, highly publicized data security incidents highlight the continued vulnerability of corporate information systems. Notably, employees who fall prey to sophisticated phishing e-mails and other scams often contribute to...more

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