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Federal Grant Provides $7 Million to Fund Cybersecurity Efforts by Local Governments

Bricker Graydon LLP on 7/30/2024

Did your computer suffer from a blue screen of death due to the global IT outage caused by an update from CrowdStrike, a popular cybersecurity provider to many enterprises around the country? Cybersecurity concerns top the...more

Cybersecurity Implementation Plan Offers a Roadmap for Cyber Priorities

Perkins Coie on 8/2/2023

The Biden Administration recently reaffirmed its continued focus on cybersecurity by announcing an Implementation Plan for the National Cybersecurity Strategy (the Plan). The Plan provides a roadmap covering the policies and...more

It’s PRUdent to Refrain from Cybersquatting: ACPA Applies to Domain Name Re-Registration

McDermott Will & Emery on 2/9/2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit joined the Third and Eleventh Circuits in ruling that the re-registration of an infringing domain name with a bad faith intent to profit violates the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer...more

Anchovy News, October 2021

Hogan Lovells on 10/29/2021

This is the October edition of Anchovy News. Here you will find articles concerning ICANN, the domain name industry and the recuperation of domain names across the globe. In this issue we cover: DOMAIN NAME INDUSTRY NEWS ...more

Cyber Alert: Business Email Compromise Schemes Increasing

Porter Hedges LLP on 4/26/2021

We’ve all heard the sad story: A transaction is about to close. The buyer is preparing to wire funds to the seller. Unbeknownst to the buyer, a hacker has hijacked the parties’ email communications to replace the wiring...more

Canadian Domain Name Registrar Offers New Free Cybersecurity Solution to Individuals

Bennett Jones LLP on 5/22/2020

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) launched a domain name system (DNS) service on April 23, 2020. CIRA is the entity responsible for overseeing Canada's .ca country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). CIRA is...more

SIDN and its fight against cybercrime

Hogan Lovells on 2/27/2020

Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland or SIDN, the Registry operator of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL (the Netherlands) appears to be increasing its efforts in its fight against cybercrime....more

Chime It’s an Email from Your Favorite Outside Counsel, or Is It?

McGuireWoods LLP on 12/5/2019

While customer data breaches are garnering a lot of media attention, a subtler but equally problematic cybercrime is slowly on the rise – domain spoofing. In this context, cybercriminals are registering domain names that are...more

The importance of Registry Lock

Hogan Lovells on 12/4/2019

A recent blog post by the manager of the Netherlands country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL, SIDN, indicated that only 150 of the 5.8 million .NL domain names are secured with .NL Control, SIDN’s Registry Lock Service. ...more

Cyber Security: NCSC warns over global DNS hijacking

Hogan Lovells on 7/26/2019

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an organisation of the UK Government that provides cybersecurity advice and support for the public and private sector, published an article earlier this year relating to a recent...more

Analyzing the impact of the EU GDPR on access to WHOIS data, one year on

Hogan Lovells on 6/3/2019

During the Annual INTA 2019 Meeting, a panel was held on the EU General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the temporary removal of data for the WHOIS directory. IPMT Partner David Taylor spoke on the following GDPR issues...more

Privacy Tip #185 – Scammers Are Getting Bolder and More Insistent

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/12/2019

I try to keep my spam filter on the most restrictive setting, which has dramatically decreased the amount of spam I receive in my email box every day. But every once in a while, I receive an email that makes my gut twitch and...more

Guarding Against the Chinese Domain Name Email Scam

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 3/11/2019

Risk Management Question - The Canadian Trade Commission recently issued a warning about a new email scam that involves the sender posing as a Chinese registrar company and attempting to convince the receiver that an...more

.DE ups security with 100,000 DNSSEC domain names

Hogan Lovells on 11/19/2018

DENIC, the Registry responsible for running the .DE namespace, recently announced that 100,000 .DE domain names have been registered using Domain Name System Security Extension (DNSSEC)....more

French government report on cyber threats summarized

Hogan Lovells on 8/27/2018

This summer, the French government, through the Home Office (Ministre de l’Intérieur), announced the publication of a detailed report on cyber threats in 2018....more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/4/2018

In this month's edition of Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss the General Data Protection Regulation taking effect and whether regulators are ready, as well as ICANN's release of temporary measures to ensure domain...more

Netherlands – Cybersecurity: Hackman to the rescue!

Hogan Lovells on 6/4/2018

In May, SIDN, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) extension .NL (Netherlands), published an article on the Ethical Hacker Rickey Gevers and the efforts of the Netherlands to make the Dutch...more

Global IP outlook 2018

Hogan Lovells on 1/24/2018

2017 was a year of widespread political, technological, and legal changes; leading to lack of certainty and creating both challenges and opportunities for businesses in 2018 and beyond. ...more

Sites get ICEd in transatlantic assault on cyber crooks

Hogan Lovells on 12/29/2017

As part of a sustained and coordinated effort, law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have rounded off their on-going fight against cybercrime known as “Operation In Our Sites” with the traditional annual...more

Boo! “Witch” one should you have, HTTP or HTTPS?

McManis Faulkner on 10/31/2017

With Halloween season here, it’s important to be aware of the spooks on the web. It is a scary online world, and now more than ever is the time to take measures to strengthen the security of your website....more

Your Voice Is Heard – Controversial Clause Deleted From China’s New Domain Name Rules

Hogan Lovells on 9/28/2017

On 24 August 2017, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT“) issued the final version of the Rules on the Administration of Internet Domain Names (“New Domain Name Rules“). These new Rules will come...more

The Evolving Internet of Things and Its Risks for Business Consumers

Williams Mullen on 11/21/2016

The recent distributed denial of service (“DDOS”) attack on domain name service provider Dyn is likely to result in greater scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers of the potential risks associated with the increasing use of the...more

How did the Internet of Things allow the latest attack — on the Internet?

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/28/2016

Over the last week, details have become available to explain how an attack against a well-known domain name service (DNS) provider occurred. What about the potential legal risks? We will attempt to provide insights into...more

Are You Prepared for Disruption? New regulations, new challenges and opportunities [Expect Focus – Vol. II, July 2016]

Carlton Fields on 8/29/2016

- Fed Takes First Steps Toward Setting Capital Requirements for Some Insurers - New Wave of COI Rate Increase Lawsuits Hits the Industry - STOLI Policies Cancelled, Insurers Retain Premium -...more

Web.com Suffers Data Breach Affecting 93,000 Customers

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/25/2015

The list of companies hit by cyber-attacks continues to grow. This time, Florida-based web hosting company, Web.com, has announced that it suffered a data breach that may have compromised credit card information and other...more

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