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Home Depot Ruling Tolls Death Knell For 'Silent Cyber'

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A Jan. 13 decision out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is one more nail in the coffin of "silent cyber." In Home Depot Inc. v. Steadfast Insurance Co., the federal appellate court agreed with the lower...more

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Cyber Incidents on the Rise: Tips for Effective Data Breach Notification

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Cyber incidents have been growing at an exponential rate in recent years. A recent report from the Identity Theft Resource Center found that there were over one billion data breach victims in Q2 of 2024, which is around five...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Insure Against Data Breaches Suffered By Vendors and Service Providers

Over the last several years several companies, including Marriott, Yahoo and Volkswagen, have been victimized by hackers breaking into a company’s computer network. In some cases, they have put confidential information on the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible?

It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you if its product is compromised and results in a data...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Phishing for Force Majeure – What’s the Catch?

With the recent onslaught of ransomware attacks, it’s time to revisit force majeure clauses (again). Earlier in the pandemic, we reviewed how COVID-19 could impact force majeure provisions. Since then, there has been a flurry...more

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Class Action & MDL Roundup – Winter 2021

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our winter edition covers notable class actions from the fourth quarter of 2020. In this edition, we find a common theme among COVID-19 class actions, the Tampa 2 defends...more

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Getting The Deal Through - Cloud Computing 2020

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What kinds of cloud computing transactions take place in your jurisdiction? As a G7 economy with mature IT and related services markets, the UK is one of the most important global markets for cloud computing. According to...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2019

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Cybersecurity company Carbon Black recently issued are port of the results of a survey of chief information security officers (CISOs) of financial organizations, which showed that the financial industry is getting hammered by...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

Addressing Cyber Attacks and Data Breaches in Supplier Contracts - Part 1: Contractual Protections With Respect to Data Breaches

Given the unrelenting, it seems, news reports of cyber attacks and data breaches affecting customer records and data, the issue of what are the appropriate contractual provisions that should govern data breaches in a contract...more

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