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Navigating Copilot Adoption: Key Legal Considerations for Data Governance

Epiq on 4/16/2025

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

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/21/2025

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

Strategic Insights for Safeguarding Information with Microsoft Purview

Lighthouse on 3/12/2025

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

The Evolution of Password Management

Ankura on 1/10/2025

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

Microsoft Delays Recall Rollout Amid Privacy Concerns

HaystackID on 6/18/2024

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

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/31/2024

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

AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

White & Case LLP on 8/10/2023

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

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/15/2022

CYBERSECURITY - DOJ Takes Down RaidForums' Website - In an action against what has been described as one of the largest hacker forums in the world, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on April 12, 2022, that...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 11/12/2021

CYBERSECURITY - November's "Patch Tuesday" Includes 55 Patches - Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/20/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/9/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability - Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/2/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Law Enforcement Takes Down DoubleVPN - I love seeing another win for law enforcement in the cyber context. Servers and web domains owned by DoubleVPN, a virtual private network, were seized recently...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/11/2021

CYBERSECURTY - U.S. CISA + Cyber Command Warns of Critical Flaw in VMware - Although a patch has been available by VMware since May 25, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2021 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/16/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware - Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/15/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert - As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more

Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/30/2020

We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/13/2020

Alabama City Hit with Ransomware - On June 5, 2020, Florence, Alabama’s information technology systems were hit with ransomware by the DoppelPaymer group demanding a ransom payment of $378,000 in bitcoin. Mayor Steve Holt...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2020

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/6/2020

Microsoft Issues Cybersecurity Risk Warning and Offers Help to Hospitals During COVID-19 Crisis - On April 1, 2020, Microsoft issued a specific warning to health care entities alerting them that they are at particular risk...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/10/2020

Department of Homeland Security Warns of Cyber-Attacks by Iran - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a grave warning to U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure operators on January 6, 2020, alerting the...more

To Extend or Not to Extend Consumer Rights to All

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/15/2019

Microsoft announced this week that it would extend the consumer rights currently given to California consumers through the California Consumer Privacy Act to all consumers—no matter where they reside....more

Microsoft’s Extension Of CCPA Protections Creates Compliance Floor

Fox Rothschild LLP on 11/14/2019

On Nov. 11, Microsoft announced that it will voluntarily extend the core data privacy protections afforded to California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to all its U.S. customers. California's...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/29/2019

Security research firm Gigamon has reported that the nasty cybercriminal group FIN8 may have reappeared in June after a two-year silence. FIN8 is known for implementing malware on point of sale systems to steal credit card...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/12/2019

The Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance just released its "2018 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report," which says “2018–Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” That’s our experience, too. Here are the highlights from the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/17/2019

Protection of industrial control systems is crucial to the security of our country. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has announced a project for which it is seeking comment: Detecting and Protecting...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/22/2018

This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report that outlined cyber incidents that nine public companies had experienced, causing fraudulent losses totaling more than $100 million. The...more

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