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Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Cybercrime Trends: A Midyear Review

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Cybercriminals continue to outpace the best efforts of regulators, law enforcement, and cybersecurity professionals. Recent reporting from the Federal Bureau of Investigation demonstrates that cybercriminals are increasingly...more

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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

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

5 GRC Trends and Resolutions for a More Secure 2024

Elevate your resilience in the new year by understanding top GRC trends, patterns, and best practices across AI, TPRM, cyber risk, and more. As we step into 2024, technological advancements and an increasingly connected —...more

BakerHostetler

Deeper Dive into the Data

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Every year, BakerHostetler collects and analyzes various metrics about the incident response matters we handle. In 2022, we handled over 1,160 incidents. The most striking trends we saw across those incidents were an overall...more

Tenace

What to Do After a Data Breach: Surviving the First 24 Hours

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Today data breaches are a costly and ever-present danger for businesses in both the public and private sector. Each year, the total number of reported breaches grows 5-10% over the previous year, with over 22 billion records...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

The Many-Headed Threat of Ransomware

It may seem that the very term “ransomware” wasted little time going from “newish-sounding threat” to expected, constant presence in the news and IT meetings alike. But, of course, it’s ultimately just a modern word for one...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Law Firm Cyber Alerts

"Bonus Payment" Phishing Emails Are Seeking New Ransomware Victims

Risk Management Question - How can employees mitigate the risk of falling for phishing scams purportedly sent by their company's HR department? The Issue - Scammers often know just the right thing to say to pique an...more

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Building a Better Response for Ransomware

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You almost can’t blame cyber criminals for their relentless barrage of ransomware attacks against the corporate world. From their perspective, it’s easy money. Corporations face a much more frustrating calculus. You can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI Warns of Hive Ransomware Following Attack Against Hospital System

On August 25, 2021, the FBI issued a Flash Alert to warn companies, especially in the health care industry, about the proliferation of attacks by threat actors using Hive ransomware....more

Burr & Forman

Business Exposure to Internet Crime

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Each year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes its Internet Crime Report.  The IC3’s 2020 Internet Crime Report includes startling information about the continuing...more

Woods Rogers

Colonial Pipeline – A Ransomware Attack Hits Close To Home

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If you had never heard of the Colonial Pipeline Company before this week, chances are that you have heard about it now.  Sitting in your car waiting in long lines to fill up at your local gas station hoping they don’t run out...more

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[Virtual Event] 2021 Alaska Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - February 26th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm AKST

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirements, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Pandemic-based Cyber Attacks, Phishing Schemes & Data Breaches: Oh My!

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Never let a crisis go to waste. This appears to be the maxim of cyber criminals seeking to capitalize on cyber vulnerabilities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Dealing with Two Schoolyard Bullies: Schools Are Forced to Contend with Cyber-attacks While Also Trying to Manage Covid-19 Crisis

Criminals are apparently not taking any time off during this pandemic, and in fact by all accounts have increased their attacks, particularly targeting entities whose attention is diverted to dealing with the fallout of the...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Spy Games: How Insider/Outsider Threats Have Become the Newest Cybersecurity Legal Risk

Cybersecurity does not just pose technical challenges; companies must always keep their eye on the human component of cyber risk.  For example, even the most damaging and sophisticated hacks – such as the recent Twitter hacks...more

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4 Ways to Protect ePHI Beyond HIPAA Compliance

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Given the choice between credit card data and digital health records, cybercriminals prefer the latter. A stolen credit card can be canceled. Electronic protected health information (ePHI) with its treasure-trove of...more

Goodwin

Financial Services Weekly Roundup: Gone Phishing – The SEC’s OCIE Addresses Ransomware Attacks

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In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to its exemptive applications procedures under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act) and proposed to amend Form 13F to...more

White & Case LLP

COVID-19 crisis in France: beware of fraudulent international wire transfers

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The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a resurgence of fraudulent international wire transfers. Companies and banks should therefore be extra vigilant when dealing with international wire transfer orders....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cybersecurity Challenges and Incident Response Preparedness During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The spread of the novel coronavirus has upended Americans’ lives in a matter of months. While life outside has ground to a standstill in many regions of the country, much of corporate America is meeting the unique challenges...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Cyber Hygiene: Practical Cybersecurity Considerations During COVID-19 - March 31st, 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm ET

The novel coronavirus has forced large segments of the workforce into remote environments for the foreseeable future, posing an array of risks and considerations for in-house counsel and security professionals. Rapid and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Natural Gas Compressor Facility Shut Down After Ransomware Attack

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that a ransomware attack shut down a natural gas compressor facility for two days. While in the network, the attacker deployed software trying to “identify...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

Harris Beach PLLC

Phishing and Vishing and Smishing (Oh my!): New Types of Scams Require Increased Vigilance

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Your business wouldn’t fall for fraud – or would it? These days, cybercriminals are getting more personal, meaning they’ve gone from sending blanket emails with farfetched claims to scouring your personal data to craft highly...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Important Tool in Your Box: Spam Filter

I have been hanging out a lot with Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) these days at speaking engagements and conferences, as October – National Cybersecurity month – is always...more

Stoel Rives - Health Law Insider®

HHS Issues Practical New Cybersecurity Guidance for Healthcare Businesses of all Sizes

In late January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a new cybersecurity guidance document for healthcare businesses of all sizes. The guidance...more

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