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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #418 – New Phishing Scheme Uses Scarce Weight Loss Drugs as Hook

Scammers are always looking for new ways to dupe victims. If you battle your weight, you think about it a lot and are always looking for easier ways to lose some pounds. There is no easy way, but we are always looking for an...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #411 – Phishing Attacks Increased 40% in 2023

Everyone thinks they can spot a phishing email. If true, we would not see so many security incidents, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The statistics are overwhelming that phishing emails are a significant cause of data...more

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Preserving Forensic Artifacts Following Incident Detection - Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column

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‘Dear Mary,’ is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related – data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more

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Privacy Peril:Chatty Cathy

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We are all increasingly familiar with, and probably increasingly frustrated by, the use of chatbots to attempt to solve some problem we are having with a company, often delivery of a purchased item. The “virtual agent” (not...more

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Healthcare Organizations Continue to Be Under (Cyber) Attack

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Are the moles winning? A few months ago, I wrote how the job of protecting protected health information (PHI) regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is becoming more like a game of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth

Hybrid work is likely here to say, and, as Sheila Limmroth, privacy specialist at DCH Health System, and the author of the chapter Hybrid Work Environment in the Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual observes in this...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more

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SEC Makes Cybersecurity Top Priority; Sanctions Firms for Cybersecurity Failures

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There is little doubt that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is making cybersecurity a top priority. SEC Chair Gary Gensler told a Senate committee on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 that the agency is developing a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 8. Privacy Briefs: August 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 8 (August, 2021) - IBM Security reported that the total cost of a data breach increased by nearly 10% year-over-year in 2021, the largest single-year cost increase in the last seven years....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #290 – 700 Million LinkedIn Users’ Data for Sale on Hacker Forum

Although a security researcher has confirmed that LinkedIn users’ data, including full names, gender, email addresses, telephone numbers, and industry information is for sale on RaidForums by a hacker self-dubbed “GOD User...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2021 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - Fertility Clinic in Georgia Notifies Patients of Data Breach - Reproductive Biology Associates, LLC (RBA) and its affiliate, MyEggBank, notified approximately 38,000 patients that a data breach...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Colorado Mobile Home Park to Pay $25,000 for Data Breach

Last week, Impact MHC, a Colorado-based mobile home park management company, agreed to pay $25,000 to the Colorado Attorney General’s office and implement new security measures after a data breach of more than 15,000...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Routine Collection Of Employee Private Information May Open The Door To Costly Litigation If A Data Breach Occurs

In McFarlane v. Altice USA, Inc., a recent decision out of the Southern District of New York, a class of plaintiffs successfully established standing and stated a plausible claim for breach of implied contract based on a data...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

From Her Words to OCR's Ears: 'Dissent' Seeks to Hold Hackers, Leakers Accountable

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - In her 14-plus years of investigating and blogging about hacking and breaches, “Dissent” has been yelled at, threatened with lawsuits and accused of being a criminal....more

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Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

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We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

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Beware of phishing schemes relating to aviation escrow matters

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The McAfee & Taft Aviation Group has recently seen an increase in the number of phishing schemes relating to aviation escrow matters. Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, such as...more

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Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

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5 Ways National Cybersecurity Month Is Like Halloween

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October is best known for Halloween, but October also happens to be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. It’s a time to focus on how cybersecurity is a shared responsibility, and we all must work together to protect and...more

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This "Phishing" Test Stinks. From The Head Down.

Pee-yew. A major media company, like a lot of media employers these days, has been facing difficult economic times and has had furloughs, pay cuts, and buyouts. So the surviving employees were tickled pink when they...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2020 #4

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Cognizant Confirms Maze Ransomware Attack - The criminals behind the Maze ransomware [view recent related posts here and here] have gone big and hit Cognizant, one of the largest technology consulting companies in the U.S.,...more

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Keep Calm and Carry On: 5 Data Security Do’s and Don’ts for Everyone

Cyber criminals see opportunity in the pandemic. Some exploit security vulnerabilities in remote working. Others prey on people’s fears by crafting phishing emails and malware-infected websites purportedly about the...more

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COVID-19 Impacts: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

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COVID-19 is increasingly being used in a variety of malicious email phishing spams and attacks in countries such as the United States, Japan, Russia and China. These updates purport to be from official government agencies and...more

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The Cybersecurity Threat of COVID-19

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As people across the world react to the rapid spread of COVID-19, a new threat is emerging; individuals and employers face a risk from hackers trying to take advantage of the demand for information. Hackers have begun using...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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