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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

C-Suites: Cybercrime Damages Expected to Reach $6 Trillion by 2021

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, cybercrime is the fastest growing crime in the U.S., with damages expected to reach $6 trillion globally by 2021. Therefore, it is axiomatic that C-Suites continue to address the risk...more

Burr & Forman

Cyber Still Atop Exam Priorities

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FINRA held its bi-annual Cybersecurity Conference in January and recently published five take-away real-world experiences from the conference...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FTC Touts Refined Approach to Data Security Enforcement

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Synopsis: On January 6, 2020, Andrew Smith, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, outlined in a blog post the agency’s new approach to data security orders. The agency implemented this...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Cyber Criminals Concentrate on C-Suites

Verizon released its 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) on May 8th. The widely read annual report is considered a primary source for data breach trends, statistics and forecasts. This year’s report is based on data...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Insider Trading and Equifax

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We regularly have conversations with our clients about whether particular non-public information is "material," who at the company knows about such information and whether certain individuals should be allowed to engage in...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Incident Response: The Increasing Risks to Corporate Legal Departments

The consequences of a data breach reached new heights last week when Yahoo announced the resignation of its General Counsel in response to a series of security incidents the company suffered. A more fulsome explanation of...more

Zelle  LLP

That is SO last week - September 2015 #2

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Last week, Ellen Pao withdrew the appeal in her sex discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins. The Pao v. Kleiner Perkins trial captivated Silicon Valley as it sought to spotlight all-male company ski trips and double...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

New survey shows continued lack of executive confidence in cybersecurity and increases in data loss

A new survey released by Raytheon and websense, called “Study-Why Executives Lack Security Posture Confidence While Knowing that the Metrics They Use to Gauge it are Ineffective” “reveals that confidence in [executives’]...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

NIST Guide Highlights Cybersecurity Considerations for Utilities and Manufacturing Companies

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In 2013 alone, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) responded to more than 256 cyber-incident reports—more than half of them in the energy...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

2015 US State of Cybercrime Survey released

The 2015 US State of Cybercrime survey has been released and is worth a read. The Survey, co-sponsored by PwC, CSO, the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the United States...more

Carlton Fields

Spoofing Whales: How Companies Can Protect Their CEOs and CFOs from the "Business Email Compromise”

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Cyber scammers continually innovate new means to extract valuable information from unsuspecting victims. And a new form of cyber fraud is exploiting the close relationship between CEOs and CFOs. Identifying this threat — and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC announces data security guidance for businesses

We (and others) often comment on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) increased enforcement activity of data security issues, particularly with the Wyndham and LabMD cases, and the fact that it is enforcing data security...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Phishing and Spear Phishing: Modern Methods Applied to Age-Old Social Engineering

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It may surprise many who have observed the recent media attention of data breaches to learn that in the world of Cybersecurity, sometimes it’s the oldest attacks that find new life when they are applied in new ways. Phishing...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Privacy Tuesday – January 6, 2015

Welcome to the first Privacy Tuesday of 2015! We hope that you enjoyed our 12 Days of Privacy series (and if you missed it, they are all linked in the right column of the blog…). Three things that you should...more

Snell & Wilmer

Travelers, Beware the “Darkhotel” Hacks Over Hotel Internet

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Business travelers may be targeted and hacked through hotel Wi-Fi networks, according to a recent report by Kaspersky Lab. Hackers have been stealing company data from top executives at luxury hotels in an attack known as...more

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