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OCC Notifies Congress of Major Email System Security Breach

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/11/2025

On April 8, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) officially notified Congress of a significant information security incident involving its email system. This notification, mandated by the Federal Information...more

Business Email Compromise Scams: What They Are, and How to Avoid Them

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/25/2024

In an increasingly digital world, the rise in cybercrime involving email scams has become a significant threat to individuals and organizations alike. These sophisticated attacks exploit human psychology and technological...more

Business Email Compromise: The Most Prevalent – and Preventable – Cyber Risk

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/25/2024

Ransomware attacks that shut business down to zero and data breaches that disclose the personal information of customers, vendors and employees justifiably strike fear in the hearts of executives everywhere. Organizations can...more

How to Be Ready for Coronavirus-Related Cybersecurity Challenges

Ballard Spahr LLP on 3/12/2020

The novel coronavirus outbreak is creating electronic communication and data privacy concerns on a number of fronts. One immediate effect is a significant increase in phishing scams, used by threat actors to launch malware...more

Cyberspace Saves an Out-of-State Oil Company

Gray Reed on 9/5/2019

Can an email be directed to a particular state? No, said a Texas court in Enerquest Oil & Gas, LLC v. Antero Resources Corporation. The court questioned “the very premise of the contention that an email can be sent to a...more

Test Your Employees with Internal Phishing Campaigns

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/9/2018

Phishing campaigns continue to be one of the most successful ways for malicious intruders to access company information, including personal information of employees and customers. Phishing emails continue to get more and more...more

SEC Issues Report Warning about Fake Email Scams

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/19/2018

On October 16, 2018, the SEC issued a 21(a) report announcing that it had investigated whether certain public companies that were victims of oftentimes unsophisticated, cyber-related frauds had violated federal securities...more

ABA Encourages Encryption of Emails When Transmitting Confidential Client Information

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/23/2017

In a recent formal Ethics Opinion, the American Bar Association stressed that lawyers must make reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access to confidential information relating to the representation of...more

State of the Cyber Nation: UK Government Report on Cybersecurity Breaches

Hogan Lovells on 4/26/2017

On 19 April 2017, the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published a report on cybersecurity breaches and how they affected UK companies in the last year. Headline statistics from the report...more

Tales from the (Quantum) Crypt

Proskauer on Privacy on 8/31/2016

The dream of hack-proof communication just got a little closer to reality. On August 16, 2016, China launched the world’s first “quantum satellite,” a project the Chinese government hopes will enable it to build a...more

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