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CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Privacy Division Created by Massachusetts Attorney General

Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Maura Healey announced the creation of a Data Privacy and Security Division, focusing on protecting consumers from privacy and security breaches and threats. AG Healey named Sara Cable as...more

Troutman Pepper

Digital Planning Podcast - Interview With Leeza Garber

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The Digital Planning Podcast is designed to educate individuals about all things digital in connection with estate planning, business planning, and estate administration. Your hosts, attorneys Jennifer Zegel, Ross Bruch, and...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Deregulation is the New Buzzword in Washington — Except in the Tech Industry

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The past year has been a volatile one, from trade wars to the government shutdown to a stock market dive. One constant that U.S. businesses have become accustomed to, however, is deregulation across a wide variety of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #159 – Consider Risks When Using Facebook and Other Social Media Platforms

Facebook announced late last week that it had suffered the largest breach in its history—50 million accounts were compromised, and another 40 million accounts affected—yes, that equals 90 million accounts. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting in Multiple Ways

Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corporation (“FICO”) first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market participants to facilitate...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Affair Website Ashley Madison Fined $8.75 Million Over Data Breach, Misrepresentations

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners and operators of AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people interested in having discreet affairs, related to the...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

What You Need to Know about the New Broadband Privacy Regulations

As we previewed last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted new privacy rules that govern Internet service providers’ (ISPs) handling of broadband customer information. Though the Wireline Competition...more

Dickinson Wright

Hello Insurers – Court says CGL may Cover Privacy Breaches Occurring Prior to 2014

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In April 2013, Glens Falls Hospital admitted that the medical records for more than 2,300 of its patients were stored for several months on an unprotected computer server. The hospital’s outside records contractor, Portal...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Fourth Circuit Upholds Coverage Under CGL Policy for Data Breach Claims

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Fourth Circuit”) recently concluded that an insurer had a duty to defend a health care company that was sued by individuals whose personal health information was...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Hanging Around: Fourth Circuit Confirms the Coverage for Data Breach Can Still Be Found in Traditional Liability Policies

With today’s increased focus on data breaches and related cyber liability exposure, the insurance market continues to develop policies tailored to this unique risk. Insurers are also excluding cyber risks in many traditional...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ashley Madison Fallout: Class Actions, Pentagon investigation and easily searchable data

We previously reported that hackers The Impact Team had posted legitimate detailed information about 36 million adultery website Ashley Madison users. In the wake of the shocking posting of the data last week, two class...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part I

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Internet commenters and legal analysts alike are buzzing about the Ashley Madison hack. The website -- which billed itself as a networking site for anyone who wanted to discretely arrange an extramarital affair -- has already...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

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