As the global pandemic begins to show signs of waning, cyber risk is showing no such easing. In fact, in a recent survey, over 68% of business leaders reported believing that their cybersecurity risks are increasing, despite...more
This month, the cybersecurity research firm Volexity found a series of four critical security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server software. Since then, vulnerability has been independently verified and confirmed...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The attorney-client privilege is a bedrock legal principle that protects a client from providing a court or adversary with confidential communications exchanged in the course of providing or receiving...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In the past week, the cybersecurity community has seen a dramatic increase in the number of attacks being made on healthcare organizations around the globe....more
4/5/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Information Governance ,
Malware ,
Risk Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Seyfarth Synopsis: As individuals and businesses continue to focus on the rising number of confirmed Coronavirus cases throughout the world and what steps they can take to guard against infection, malicious actors are...more
3/31/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Protection ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hackers ,
Information Governance ,
Information Technology ,
Malware ,
Phishing Scams ,
Risk Management ,
Telecommuting
The specter of a data breach is an unfortunate reality for anyone that uses a computer. Corporations are obviously large targets, with potentially thousands of employees doing things on computers. Some of those things are...more
12/13/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
SHIELD Act
Recently, a widespread global ransomware attack has struck hospitals, communication, and other types of companies and government offices around the world, seizing control of affected computers until the victims pay a ransom. ...more
5/16/2017
/ Bitcoin ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
FBI ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Malware ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
US-CERT
In his “Data Is a Toxic Asset” blog post, Bruce Schneier argues that data is a toxic asset and that the lesson all the recent data breaches are teaching us is that storing this asset is “dangerous,” because it makes companies...more