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Top 10 Issues General Counsel Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024

Alston & Bird on 2/26/2024

Threat actors are evolving. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explains how ransomware gangs have changed their tactics and how companies can respond to the threat while navigating new scrutiny from investors and...more

Cyber Strategy: HHS Weighs in on Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Industry

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/23/2024

Seyfarth Synopsis: The health care sector faces escalating cybersecurity risks given its size, technological dependence and the sensitive nature of data used therein. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

MOVEit Transfer Zero-Day Vulnerability: What Companies Need to Know

Baker Donelson on 6/8/2023

On May 31, 2023, renowned managed file transfer solution provider Ipswitch, Inc. revealed a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship solution, MOVEit Transfer, that can enable mass data theft from thousands of organizations....more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2022 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/21/2022

CYBERSECURITY - ECRI Names Cybersecurity Attacks as Top Health Technology Hazard for 2022 - ECRI has been publishing its annual report of health technology hazards for the past 15 years. According to ECRI’s Device...more

Hackers Will Not Only Take Your Money, They Could Also Take Your Patients’ Lives

Reveal on 6/17/2021

Go to just about any news site today and there is probably a new story about a data breach that costs a company millions of dollars. Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen Colonial Pipeline pay as much as $5 million in...more

Cybercriminals Target Healthcare Industry During The Pandemic

Fisher Phillips on 11/17/2020

Several federal agencies have teamed up to warn healthcare employers of the increased threat they face as a result of malicious cybercriminals aiming to take advantage of the pandemic to wreak havoc on their operations. The...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/11/2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

Lessons Learned from the Capital One Data Breach (Part I of III)

The Volkov Law Group on 9/10/2019

Not to say, I told you so, but around the same time that the Capital One data breach occurred, I was reminding clients that nearly half of all significant data breaches or cyber-incidents occur because of internal actors. ...more

Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 5: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

Snell & Wilmer on 8/27/2019

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

Privacy Tip #198: Cybersecurity for Tax Professionals

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/12/2019

This week, I was honored to again have the opportunity to participate as a speaker at the Internal Revenue Service’s Nationwide Tax Forum 2019 in Washington, D.C. Through a generous grant provided by the American Coalition...more

Data Security Tips for Human Resources Professionals

Blank Rome LLP on 7/3/2019

The task of securing company networks and systems is no longer delegated solely to an organization’s IT department. Human resources plays an equally important role in protecting company data. The authors of this article...more

HHS Releases Guidance For Health Industry On Voluntary Cybersecurity Practices

Roetzel & Andress on 2/22/2019

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a publication entitled the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients." The HICP was prepared in response to the...more

HIPAA Breach Results in a $4,500,000 Class Action Settlement

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/21/2019

Community Health System, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has agreed to pay $4,500,000 to settle claims made against it arising from a 2014 data breach. The data breach, believed to be caused by malware...more

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

Fisher Phillips on 1/29/2019

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

Impact of the New Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: 2019 Outlook

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/14/2019

• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 28, 2018, announced the release of the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients" that provides a "Call to Action" to make...more

Is Cybersecurity on Your 2019 Work Plan?

Verrill on 1/11/2019

On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) closed out the year by releasing long-awaited voluntary cybersecurity guidelines for the health care industry. The four-volume publication,...more

Client Alert – Employers Beware: ‘Tis the Season for Data Theft

Bowditch & Dewey on 12/18/2018

Because cybercriminals don’t take holidays, December is an appropriate time for all employers to take steps to protect tax data and identities (both their own and their employees’) in advance of the 2019 tax-filing season....more

Business Litigation Alert: "Will There Be a Jump in Cyber Attacks in 2016? Survey Says... Yes"

Porter Hedges LLP on 2/2/2016

Last year, we saw some major cyber breaches affect millions of Americans (remember the June 2015 hack of the federal Office of Personal Management that impacted over 20 million Americans?). Unfortunately, cyber-attacks do not...more

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