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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #290 – 700 Million LinkedIn Users’ Data for Sale on Hacker Forum

Although a security researcher has confirmed that LinkedIn users’ data, including full names, gender, email addresses, telephone numbers, and industry information is for sale on RaidForums by a hacker self-dubbed “GOD User...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Facebook Suspends Apps That Scrape Data From Its Platform Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Facebook announced on September, 20th, that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from interoperating with the Facebook platform alleging misuse of Facebook members’ personal data. This is a continuation of the Cambridge...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Data Scraping, at Home and Abroad

Data scraping is a technique where information on one platform is exported onto another. The practice is widespread and is used for all sort of reasons, like market analysis or advertising. The kind of information located and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #200 - Iranian Backed Hacking Group Using LinkedIn To Deliver Malicious Documents

Fireeye published research last week that it has identified a phishing campaign by APT34, which is known to be a hacking group out of Iran, that all LinkedIn users should be aware of when considering adding a LinkedIn...more

Payne & Fears

Don’t Let Technology Run Away With Your Customer Information

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For many companies, customer information ranks among its most important assets. Yet these days, employees often keep this sensitive customer information in electronic locations that are not readily accessible to or controlled...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2018 #2

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Cisco is warning customers using its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software about a virtual private network (VPN) bug that could "allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

How Older Cybersecurity Lapses Can Give Birth to Future Data Breaches

Since my last post on the subject (“LinkedIn Grapples with the Ripples of a 2012 Data Breach”), there have been several developments related to LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach. First, in May, LinkedIn announced it has finished...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Cybersecurity News and Notes – June 2016

In Case You Missed It: US and EU officials signed on to the so-called “Privacy Umbrella” deal last week. The agreement is designed to protect the personal data of EU citizens when it is transferred to the US for law...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Three Trending Topics in IoT: Privacy, Security, and Fog Computing

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Cisco has estimated that there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to the Internet by the year 2020. IoT has been a buzzword over the past couple of years. However, the buzz surrounding IoT in the...more

King & Spalding

Coordinated Hackers Infiltrate 200 Targeted Employees’ LinkedIn Networks

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Cybersecurity researchers at the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (“Dell CTU”) uncovered a network of approximately 25 fake LinkedIn profiles that Dell CTU believes were used by an Iran-linked hacker group to establish at...more

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That is SO last week - October 2015 #3

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Last week was a tough one for Uber, an exemplar of the “sharing economy.” Multiple lawsuits against the company are focused on the status of drivers as employees or independent contractors, and now the Oregon Bureau of Labor...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - March 2015 #2

New DAA App Brings Choice to Mobile - Bringing consumer choice to mobile applications, the Digital Advertising Alliance released “AppChoices,” a free app that will allow consumers to opt out of tracking on mobile...more

Cozen O'Connor

Employee Working For You? You Say "No", LinkedIn Says "Yes"

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Those loyal readers of this blog know that the focus tends to be on what your company can and cannot do regarding social media use by potential employees (i.e., applicants) or current employees. But there is a third category...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - March 28, 2013

In This Issue: Marc Roth and Lindsay Conner to Serve as Faculty for PLI Information Technology Law Institute 2013; Data Security, Emerging Tech to Be Focus for FTC; Mobile Payment Services Subject of New FTC Report;...more

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