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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Ransomware Reckoning – The New Bill Changes the Game

The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (S.4443) is a bold legislative step in addressing ransomware as a critical threat. The act’s provisions, from elevating ransomware to a national intelligence priority to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill Includes Cybersecurity Funding for Local Governments

The bi-partisan infrastructure bill presently being debated in the U.S. Senate includes up to $1 billion in funding to state and local governments to enhance cybersecurity measures over four years....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.2.2020 | Top Story: Covid-Infected POTUS Injects Volatility to Skittish Global Markets

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Markets globally and U.S. futures are down as investors digest the news out of D.C. overnight... Jobs Report Friday again. Here’s what we’re watching for in the numbers....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

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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...more

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“Cyber Hunt” Legislation Passes U.S. Senate: Any Implications for Business?

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In a legislative environment charitably described as challenging, the fact that the Senate recently passed cybersecurity legislation by unanimous consent is noteworthy and highlights the bipartisan nature of this issue. The...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Filling Gaps: Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019 Would Expand Use of Geographic Targeting Orders

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“Sanctions Bill from Hell” Targets Real Estate Deals - On February 13, 2019, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R – S.C.) introduced S.482 – the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2019 (“DASKAA”), a bill intended...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2018 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Financial Conduct Authority Warns Banking Industry of ICOs and Cryptocurrency - Writing a “Dear CEO” letter to banking executives, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned executives on June 11,...more

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Netherlands – Cybersecurity: Hackman to the rescue!

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In May, SIDN, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) extension .NL (Netherlands), published an article on the Ethical Hacker Rickey Gevers and the efforts of the Netherlands to make the Dutch...more

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Data Breach Notification Coming to Canada

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The Government of Canada has announced that its proposed data breach notification requirements pursuant to the Digital Privacy Act (the “Act”) will take effect on November 1, 2018. The Act amends Canada’s Personal...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

The Warning Behind the Numbers: New York’s 2017 Data Breach Report

On its face, last week’s report that the number of data breaches reported last year to New York’s Attorney General spiked to an all-time high of 1,583 – up 23 percent from 2016 – was not good news....more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2017

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In the Winter 2017 edition of the Intellectual Property Bulletin, we reported on IP-related changes expected with the incoming Trump administration and the new Congress. Here we look at two such changes currently underway:...more

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Massachusetts Lawmakers Turn Attention to Cybersecurity

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In the wake of growing concerns about data privacy and cyber threats, Massachusetts lawmakers are increasingly focused on evaluating and improving the state’s cybersecurity policies and information technology infrastructure....more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House

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Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House provides a high-level overview of recent activity at the Maine State House. House District 19 Special Election - On November 3, 2015 the citizens of Sanford can take...more

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