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Warning! ChatGPT Exploit Used by Threat Actors in Cyber Attacks

Quarles & Brady LLP on 3/24/2025

Members of the health care and financial industries, along with other industries that hold sensitive data, are warned that a ChatGPT vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to attack security flaws in AI...more

Data Privacy Insights Part 1: North Carolina Ranks High in Cybercrime Complaints

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 1/29/2025

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report sheds light on the growing threat of cybercrime, both nationally and within North Carolina. The state ranks among the top 15 in the U.S. for cybercrime complaints,...more

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - December 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/6/2024

Key Points - - During its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to provide important guidance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s (PSLRA’s) particularity requirement in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or...more

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 2, March 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/8/2024

HHS Cybersecurity Performance Goals and the Healthcare Industry - The healthcare industry is a major target for cyberattacks because of all of the personal information collected from patients. Recognizing that the healthcare...more

Privacy Briefs: February 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/9/2024

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has warned that information technology (IT) help desks are being targeted in a social engineering scheme that uses the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees or employees in other...more

Federal Legislation Considers Banning Ransom Payments to Hackers

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 6/17/2021

The year 2021 continues to reveal an alarming rise in ransomware attacks. Two of the most notable of such attacks include the ransomware attack on CNA Financial Corp., with resulting payment of $40 million in ransom, and the...more

What’s Your Game Plan? Offensive or Defensive: Playing to Your Strengths [Expect Focus – October 2016]

Carlton Fields on 10/31/2016

- AXA Prevails at First Post-Jones v. Harris Excessive Fee Trial - Potential Secondary Effects of Regulatory Examinations: Evidentiary Issues and Preclusion in Parallel Litigation - On The Horizon: Global...more

Heal Thyself: Insider Threats to Heed, Especially for Industries with Large Amounts of Personal Information

Carlton Fields on 8/23/2016

A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that insider threats due to malicious or negligent employees are the leading cause of private-sector cybersecurity incidents. Of the over 600 information security professionals...more

Alphabet Soup and Data Security

Bilzin Sumberg on 10/19/2015

In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

“My, what beautiful eyes you have . . .” – Biometric Data and Privacy

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 10/13/2015

Biometric data – obviously not in just the movies anymore. It is alive, well, and increasingly being used in our everyday society. But, on September 23, 2015, when the Office of Personnel Management revealed that fingerprint...more

EXPECT FOCUS: Onboard Technology, NAIC Cybersecurity, DOL, ACA Litigation, SEC Regulation (Vol. III, Summer 2015)

Carlton Fields on 10/8/2015

In This Issue: IN THE SPOTLIGHT - - Your Data Breach Collided With My Personal Injury Coverage LIFE INSURANCE - - Phantom Injury Dooms “Shadow Insurance” Case - Latest NAIC Cybersecurity News ...more

How to Avoid and Respond to a Cybersecurity Breach

Troutman Pepper on 9/17/2015

In light of numerous recent data breaches, cybersecurity has emerged as an issue impacting organizations ranging from the local hardware store to the largest multi-national firms in the world. In short, no industry is immune...more

Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/17/2015

Part of Bradley Arant’s Privacy and Information Security Team’s seven-part Data Breach Toolkit Webinar Series, the “Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation” webinar, led by Paige Boshell and Amy Leopard,...more

California, Nevada Expand Scope of Customer Personal Information Subject to Reasonable Security Measures

Ballard Spahr LLP on 8/13/2015

Recent statutory amendments passed in California and Nevada expanding the definition of “personal information” will significantly impact the security measures businesses operating in these states must implement when handling...more

Policyholder Insider Quarterly

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 7/22/2015

Five Lessons Health Care Companies Should Learn From Cyberattacks - The American health care industry is under attack by sophisticated hackers seeking access to electronic medical records. Since January, three health...more

A Deeper Dive: Regulatory Investigations Following a Reported Breach

BakerHostetler on 6/2/2015

In our inaugural Data Security Incident Response Report (the Report), we found that regulators inquired about a company’s breach 31% of the time and multi-state state Attorneys General investigations were launched less than...more

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