On October 10, 2018, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation conducted a hearing to discuss the European Union’s recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and California’s Consumer...more
On August 2, 2018, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”) published a report summarizing its findings regarding the limited market for stand-alone cyber insurance coverage in Europe, the factors...more
On April 9, 2018, a European Commission Official speaking on the condition of anonymity warned that companies currently hiding data breaches from the public may be subject to substantial fines when the European Union’s (“EU”)...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently issued a statement and guidance to assist public companies in adequately disclosing cybersecurity risks and incidents. The new interpretive guidance, which became...more
March 1, 2018 will mark one year since the effective date of the New York Department of Financial Services’ (“NYDFS”) cybersecurity regulations, which may signal a trend towards stricter industry-specific regulatory oversight...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), along with state tax agencies and the tax industry, recently issued a warning to employers about increasingly prevalent “phishing” email scams targeting the W-2 tax form information of...more
On January 25, 2018, the South Dakota Senate approved the state’s first data breach notification law. If passed, the law would leave Alabama as the only U.S. state without a notification law. The proposed law will now move to...more
On September 30, 2017, President Trump signed a proclamation declaring October 2017 as “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.” This year marks the 14th iteration of the annual event, which is cosponsored by the National...more
On September 16, 2017, a proposed California bill modeled after the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) failed broadband privacy regulations was withdrawn from committee, creating an uncertain future for what would...more
On August 1, 2017, the Senate introduced the proposed “Internet of Things (‘IoT’) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017” (the “Act”) to establish, among other things, minimum cybersecurity standards for contractors who...more
On June 30, 2017, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced the sentencing of two men convicted of conspiring to claim up to $1.8 million in fraudulent income tax refunds from the Internal...more
On March 22, 2017, the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security heard testimony on the current state of the global cyber battleground, how rapid changes in technology and the expanding Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) present new...more
In a January 6, 2017 statement, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced that election infrastructure in the United States has been designated “critical” and worthy of the Department of Homeland Security’s (“DHS”)...more