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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

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

Ankura on 2/11/2025

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

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

Black Basta Exploits Microsoft Zero-Day After Patch

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 6/24/2024

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

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

Security Snippets: Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability to watch out for

Hogan Lovells on 1/23/2024

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

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

Best Patch Management Strategy for Remote Workers

Accelerynt, Inc. on 6/12/2023

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

Launch of Public RFI Signals FTC Scrutiny of Cloud Computing Industry

Fenwick & West LLP on 3/30/2023

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

Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - October 2022 - 3

Ankura on 10/21/2022

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

CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/13/2022

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

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 - 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

CISA Releases Free Tool to Detect Potential Compromised Microsoft Accounts

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/16/2021

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a free tool that will assist organizations with identifying indicators of compromise following threat activity in...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 - 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

Microsoft Issues Cybersecurity Risk Warning and Offers Help to Hospitals During COVID-19 Crisis

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/5/2020

On April 1, 2020, Microsoft issued a specific warning to health care entities alerting them that they are at particular risk during the COVID-19 crisis, as threat actors are using the pandemic to take advantage of...more

Is Your Company Still Running Windows 7? READ THIS!

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 1/13/2020

If you haven’t been paying attention to all the Microsoft warnings for the past year and your company is still running Windows 7, time’s up. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will stop pushing out security updates to Windows...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

Iranian Cyber-Attacks and the End of Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/10/2020

After the killing of Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, by the U.S. government, the cybersecurity news industry has been abuzz about whether Iran will engage in cyber terrorism, and if so, to what degree, as part of its...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

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - May 2017

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/3/2017

In this edition of our Privacy and Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the Trump administration's executive order outlining its cybersecurity plans, Acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen's comments on the possible...more

Global Ransomware Attack Update

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 5/17/2017

We’ve been following the latest on the WannaCry ransomware attack that we first told you about over the weekend. A feared “second strike” did not materialize today, but victimized firms in over 100 countries are still...more

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