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Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 7, August 2024

Welcome to our seventh 2024 issue of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We have a few events we want to pass along to those interested in technology, but also other areas of law and business. ...more

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The Department of Justice Is Building a Data Security Protection and Enforcement Program

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In response to President Biden’s Executive Order authorizing increased data privacy measures, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Matthew G. Olsen announced that the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

SEC adopts new rule on cybersecurity risk management, disclosure

On July 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a new rule regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure. The “Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure Rule” will be applicable to...more

Alston & Bird

Chinese Hackers Exploit Gap in Cloud Environment Used by U.S. Government

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According to recent reports issued by Microsoft and U.S. government agencies, hackers recently exploited a gap in Microsoft’s cloud environment, enabling the malicious actors to access the email accounts of employees at the...more

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More Privacy, Please - January 2023

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Editor’s Note: In regulatory news, the Colorado AG published a second version of its proposed regulations. In U.S. litigation, Meta and TikTok both faced further litigation, and an Illinois court ruled that J&M Plating must...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Chinese State Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Citrix Networking Equipment

According to the National Security Agency, actors backed by the Chinese government are actively targeting a zero-day vulnerability in two commonly-used Citrix networking devices. The exploit (CVE-2022-27518) affects Citrix...more

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October 2022 AFS Privacy Report: California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Updated Draft Regulations Ahead of October 28-29...

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California Privacy Protection Agency Releases Revised Regulations - With the effective date less than three months away, and ahead of a Board Meeting on October 28 and 29, the California Privacy Protection Agency released...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Cloaked Ursa Using Trusted Online Storage Services to Evade Detection - According to research by Palo Alto’s Unit 42, the most recent campaign by advanced persistent threat Cloaked Ursa (aka APT 20,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Twelve Hours to Get It Right: The SEC Intensifies Its Focus on Cybersecurity

The SEC’s recent enforcement actions, public statements and proposed rulemaking indicate that cybersecurity will be an area of heightened focus for the Gensler Commission. New proposed rules would require public companies...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Department of Homeland Security Issues “SHIELDS UP” Advisory for All Organizations Regardless of Size

This week the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued a “SHIELDS UP” advisory.  While it does not identify specific threats in the advisory, CISA states that the “Russian...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

FBI: More Awareness, Due Diligence Needed To Fight China in New ‘Space Race’ for Data

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 10 (October, 2021) - Conducting a risk analysis is a basic tenet of security compliance, with the overarching goal of understanding where protected health information (PHI) “lives” in an...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Passwords Used by Iranian-Backed Hackers Against Defense Contractors

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

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Do the 2021 Federal Ransomware Laws Foretell Passage of Federal Data Privacy Laws?

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In the last several weeks, the Executive and Legislative branches of the United States federal government have taken bipartisan measures to defend the country’s infrastructure from the critical national security threat posed...more

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Post-Ransomware Attack: Is it Time to Return to True Systems Segmentation?

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In the end, food companies must balance the process efficiencies and controls that data transmission and functionality over the internet provide with the risk of cyberattacks that cripple production. A sizeable chunk of...more

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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

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

In the Wake of Colonial Pipeline Cyber Incident, President Issues Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity – What...

If you live on the East Coast and tried to get gasoline last week, you already know firsthand of the impacts that a cyber incident can wreck on the supply chain.  As a result of the Colonial Pipeline cyber incident, a...more

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8 Key Takeaways from Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity for Government Contractors

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On May 12, 2021, the Biden administration released a far-reaching executive order intended to improve the U.S. government’s cybersecurity posture, both internally and in any private information technology (IT) systems that...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Presidential Transition and Cybersecurity Following the 2020 Data Breach

Key Takeaways: The Trump Administration has remained relatively silent about the 2020 data breach (believed to be connected to Russian state actors). It is unclear at this point whether the Trump Administration will take any...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Insider Cyber Threats From Outside the Office

Insider threats continue to be pervasive and real. Last month’s indictment of a Russian national accused of conspiring to recruit a U.S. company’s employee to carry out a cyberattack is a sharp reminder of that. According to...more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 25

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more

Morgan Lewis

Cyberattack Forces Gas Pipeline Shutdown

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A cyberattack on a single gas compression facility resulted in the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline for two days, according to a recent alert from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 24

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - FTC Submits Comment on the Preliminary Draft for the NIST Privacy Framework - On October 24, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Covering the Basics: CISA Announces Cybersecurity Essentials for Small Businesses

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In line with recent actions taken across the government to enhance the resilience of the nation’s cybersecurity apparatus, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a set of best practices for...more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 22

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Director Discusses Future Development of Cybersecurity Framework - On March 4, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2018 #4

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A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more

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