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Deeper Dive: Understanding the 2023-24 Crypto Threat Landscape

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As the Web3 and digital assets ecosystem continues to grow, hacks, scams and other threats remain a major cause for concern and a potential impediment to broader adoption. Data from various sources indicates that after a year...more

Mayer Brown

Investing in or Acquiring a Digital Assets Business? Watch Where You Step – Maximizing Value and Managing Risk in Digital Assets...

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As applications and use cases for digital assets and their blockchain infrastructure grow and become more sophisticated, investments and valuations for businesses in these areas have grown as well. The growing number of...more

Venable LLP

DAO or Dare: The Implications of Sarcuni v. bZx DAO for DAO Member Liability

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The blockchain community has debated for years whether Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) can or should be analogized to a corporate form and whether they operate to insulate DAO members from legal liabilities....more

Ankura

The Breaches and Threat Actors that Defined 2022

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In 2022, threat actors and hacker groups made their mark on the digital world by causing unprecedented data breaches that left organizations of all sizes and sectors vulnerable. Even with improved cybersecurity measures in...more

Shipkevich PLLC

Metaverse Primer

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The term “metaverse” first appeared in 1992 as an abstract concept in Neal Stephenson’s dystopian novel Snow Crash. Two decades later, the Metaverse has since evolved from a mere idea to a figment of everyday reality, as it...more

ArentFox Schiff

Patenting Fintech: ArentFox Schiff Obtains a Patent for Acronis International GMBH for Securing Crypto-Asset Transactions Using...

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Crypto-asset transactions are rapidly growing in popularity. However, a surge of cybersecurity breaches and hacker attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency wallet service providers has caused billions of dollars...more

The Rodman Law Group, LLC

Crypto and NFT Asset Security

In June, OpenSea revealed user email addresses were compromised due to vendor employee error. As virtually all NFT investors do, if you have an OpenSea account then you likely had your email address leaked in late June due to...more

Carlton Fields

No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs

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Dr. Melissa Dark is the Founder of DARK Enterprises, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and supporting cybersecurity education at the secondary level. Before that, Dr. Dark worked in graduate and college...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 3, Issue 7

Britain Announces Plans to Mint Its Own NFT as It Looks to ‘Lead the Way’ in Crypto - "Glen said the government was also 'widening' its gaze to look at other aspects of crypto, including so-called Web3, a movement that...more

Fisher Phillips

Forecast: January 2022 Edition

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Welcome to FP Forecast, a monthly outlook featuring Fisher Phillips thought leaders providing their insights into what employers can expect in 2022 and beyond. By following along each month, you’ll be in the best position to...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 20

The Story of Henrietta Lacks and the Biotechnology Company Accused of Selling Her Cells for Profit - These two articles (Newsweek and Fierce Biotech) describe the new lawsuit by the Henrietta Lacks Estate surrounding the...more

Fisher Phillips

The Use of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies in Ransomware Attacks: Why Employers Should Care

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As ransomware attacks continue to become more of a concern for employers of all sizes, an increasing number of hackers are demanding cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin in exchange for ending their attack. The recent ransomware...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 8

Data Breach at New England’s Largest Energy Provider - "A misconfiguration error has exposed personal data belonging to customers of New England's largest energy provider." Why this is important: New England's largest...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 6

Binance Probed by CFTC Over Whether U.S. Residents Traded - "Binance, which has an office in Singapore but says it lacks a single corporate headquarters, hasn’t been accused of misconduct and the investigation may not lead...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 8, October 2020

Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Publication of Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework - "The Framework provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging threats and enforcement challenges associated with the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 6, September 2020

TikTok Will Partner with Oracle in the United States After Microsoft Loses Bid - "TikTok and Oracle will become business partners in the United States — a deal meant to satisfy the Trump administration's national security...more

Polsinelli

Securing the Weakest Link U.S. Government’s Cryptocurrency Tracing Capacity on Full Display in Civil Forfeiture Action

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The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a civil forfeiture complaint detailing two hacks of virtual currency exchanges by North Korean actors.  These actors stole millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency or other...more

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[Event] Virtual 2020 San Francisco Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference - May 15th, San Francisco, CA

Our Virtual Regional Compliance Conferences provide updates on the latest news in regulatory requirement, compliance enforcement, and strategies to develop effective compliance programs. Watch, listen, and ask questions from...more

Hogan Lovells

Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons - 2020

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We are pleased to provide you with the third annual installment of our Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons guide. For each of these guides, we have asked our industry thought leaders throughout the world to write about...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Reflections on 2019 in Technology Law, and a Peek into 2020

t is that time of year when we look back to see what tech-law issues took up most of our time this year and look ahead to see what the emerging issues are for 2020. Data: The Issues of the Year - Data presented a wide...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Presents: Data Privacy Threats to Blockchains

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In the eighth in a series of 12 Jones Day Presents: Blockchain videos, partner Jay Johnson provides examples of existential, ordinary, and human error threats to blockchains that may result in data privacy breaches and...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - Recap of the Top Read Blog Posts in 2018

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New Year’s is a time to look back on the happenings of the year and focus on the lessons and reminders those events have provided. For our final newsletter of the year, we’d like to share with you our top 10 most read posts...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Ohio Enacts First Cybersecurity Safe Harbor

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Tacking an entirely new direction from other US states, Ohio has decided to offer defensive legal protection to businesses who have built a cybersecurity regime around well-known industry standards, even where those...more

Cozen O'Connor

Crypto Covered Under Homeowner’s Policy? Ohio Trial Court Hold’s Coverage and Bad Faith Claims for Bitcoin Theft Survive Motion...

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From the high market cap Bitcoin, Ether, Ripple, and Litecoin, to the quirky Fonziecoin, Selfiecoin, Pizzacoin, and (thank you, Dennis Rodman) Pot Coin, we have all been blasted by news of crypto and blockchain, and tales of...more

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