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Navigating Copilot Adoption: Key Legal Considerations for Data Governance

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Legalweek 2025 Session Recap - The widespread interest in AI for users’ personal and professional lives has driven significant demand for tools like Copilot for Microsoft 365. However, the implementation of any AI tool...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #436 – Microsoft Warns of Crypto Wallet Scanning Malware StilachiRAT

A Microsoft blog post reported that incident response researchers uncovered a remote access trojan in November 2024 (dubbed StilachiRAT) that “demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target...more

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Strategic Insights for Safeguarding Information with Microsoft Purview

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Successful Microsoft Purview deployments require more than just technical implementation—they demand strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and ongoing optimization. Read about the key steps required to...more

Ankura

Cybercriminals Are Moving into the Cloud and Making Your Active Directory Their New Home

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Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Cloud environments in their ransomware and/or extortion attacks. The attack activity of two (2) threat groups in particular – Octo Tempest (AKA Scattered Spider)...more

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The Evolution of Password Management

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In today's digital landscape, robust password management is critical to information security. With the increasing complexity of cyber threats, ensuring secure access to sensitive information has become more critical than...more

Benesch

AI Reporter - November 2024

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Several industry organizations have recently published AI guidelines, including the Digital Medicine Society (DMS), in partnership with Google and the Mayo Clinic. The DMS playbook includes both a strategy guide and an ROI...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Microsoft Report Highlights Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations

On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Scattered Spider Using RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware Against Victims

We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims. New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Fund Managers Must Assess Whether Microsoft/CrowdStrike Outage Has Triggered Additional Regulatory Filings

A global technology outage linked to the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike crashed Microsoft apps and triggered major disruptions across the asset management sector, along with other global industries. Private fund managers...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Black Basta Exploits Microsoft Zero-Day After Patch

It is being reported that Black Basta (aptly named) exploited a Microsoft zero-day prior to Microsoft’s release of a patch for the vulnerability back in March....more

HaystackID

Microsoft Delays Recall Rollout Amid Privacy Concerns

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Thursday, Microsoft announced its new line of Copilot Plus PCs would launch next week without the anticipated Recall feature. Originally part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite, Recall was designed to take and store...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

UK Privacy Watchdog Probes Microsoft’s Controversial “Recall” Feature

The UK’s data privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is investigating Microsoft over potential privacy concerns with its recently announced AI-powered “Recall” feature for Windows PCs. Microsoft...more

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Microsoft Flies in Regulatory Skies Towards AI Horizons: Restructures Teams and Forges Ahead with Copilot

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Microsoft is adjusting its flight plan in response to the winds of change within the technology and regulatory landscapes, affecting various aspects of its operations, from its Teams chat app to its artificial intelligence...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Patch, Patch, Patch: Updates for Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Products

Patching vulnerabilities is a difficult task. Keeping up with and patching them without disrupting users’ experience is tricky. Nonetheless, it is a necessary evil and crucial to cybersecurity hygiene and incident prevention....more

Hogan Lovells

Security Snippets: Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability to watch out for

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A vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint has been flagged as being actively exploited by CISA. A vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint is being actively exploited according to CISA’s known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Kudos to Microsoft’s Takedown of Storm-1152

There was a big win for the good guys against the bad guys this week. On December 13, 2023, after obtaining an order from the federal court in the Southern District of New York to seize U.S. based infrastructure and take...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments – Q3 2023

The firm is pleased to distribute the Q3 2023 edition of All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments, which closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more

White & Case LLP

AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

AI Leaders Commit to White House Supported Guidelines

In coordination with the White House, several leaders in the artificial intelligence (AI) space have publicly committed to a voluntary set of guidelines relating to responsible development and deployment of AI. Amazon,...more

Accelerynt, Inc.

Best Patch Management Strategy for Remote Workers

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Like it or not, the remote workforce is here to stay. Statistics show that employees say they are more productive working from home, and even before the global pandemic, there had been a 44% growth in the remote workforce...more

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Launch of Public RFI Signals FTC Scrutiny of Cloud Computing Industry

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On March 22, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a request for information (RFI) seeking public comments on business practices in the cloud computing industry. The RFI focuses on three intertwined aspects of...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Are You a Team Player? Managing Enterprise Messaging Data in eDiscovery

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Editor’s Note: On November 16, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the proliferation of enterprise messaging content in the COVID-era, a proliferation accelerated by the pre-existing industry trend of legal...more

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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - October 2022 - 3

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Prestige Ransomware Emerges, Targets Ukraine and Poland - A new ransomware variant has emerged in the wild, being used in targeted attacks against the logistics and transportation sectors within Ukraine and Poland. The...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits - Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits

Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft stated that it is aware that two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to access users’...more

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