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The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: Scams and Frauds

J.S. Held on 12/4/2024

AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving skills, whereas deepfake is synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated to replace and mimic one person’s likeness. AI has...more

CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/25/2024

If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

A Measured Approach - US Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Review and Update: Looking back on our 2023 articles and planning ahead...

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 3/1/2024

Technological advances, especially in Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, will continue to amaze in the coming years. They will open up vast new opportunities while presenting profound regulatory, litigation, and...more

DOJ Issues New Guidance for Charging CFAA Cases

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 5/24/2022

In a significant development in anti-hacking criminal enforcement, the Department of Justice last week released new guidance for charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), the nation’s premier computer...more

SIDN and its fight against cybercrime

Hogan Lovells on 2/27/2020

Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland or SIDN, the Registry operator of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) .NL (the Netherlands) appears to be increasing its efforts in its fight against cybercrime....more

Privacy Perils: Black Friday Blues

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 11/27/2019

With the holiday season fast-approaching, thrifty shoppers across the country will soon be looking to spend (and save) their hard-earned money during what is arguably the busiest shopping weekend of the year, spanning Black...more

Netherlands – Cybersecurity: Hackman to the rescue!

Hogan Lovells on 6/4/2018

In May, SIDN, the Registry responsible for the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) extension .NL (Netherlands), published an article on the Ethical Hacker Rickey Gevers and the efforts of the Netherlands to make the Dutch...more

Small and Mid-Sized Companies are the New Targets of Business Email Compromise

Womble Bond Dickinson on 3/5/2018

Originally published in the Upstate Business Journal on February 15, 2018. Meet Peter — a longtime employee and the backbone of your business’s day-to-day finance and accounting operations. Today he got an email from the...more

Thirty-Six Individuals Charged In Global Cybercrime Ring “Infraud”

King & Spalding on 2/16/2018

The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently indicted thirty-six individuals leading a global cybercrime ring for allegedly trafficking in stolen personal and financial information....more

Sites get ICEd in transatlantic assault on cyber crooks

Hogan Lovells on 12/29/2017

As part of a sustained and coordinated effort, law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Atlantic have rounded off their on-going fight against cybercrime known as “Operation In Our Sites” with the traditional annual...more

Connecticut Cyber Task Force Announced

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 11/28/2017

The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Connecticut has announced the creation of a Connecticut Cyber Task Force (“CCTF”) in partnership with the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, Homeland Security, IRS, Connecticut State...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 16

Jones Day on 11/21/2017

UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - United States and China Renew Promise Not to Hack - On October 4, U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to not engage in targeted hacking. Per a...more

Ashley Madison Settles Data Breach Case for $11.2M

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/21/2017

Ashley Madison, which suffered a data breach in 2015 involving the loss of 37 million users’ personal and financial information, has settled the suit for $11.2 million....more

Qakbot: Insight into a Persistent, Polymorphic Malware from the Cyber Defense Team at K2 Intelligence

K2 Integrity on 4/28/2017

Qakbot (Qbot) first emerged in 2009 as a piece of malware designed to steal online banking credentials from infected computers. It used classic key-logger technology combined with an ability to steal active session...more

Sony Cyber-Attackers Lurking at Financial Supervisor “Watering Hole” Target Banks and Others

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/22/2017

Cybersecurity specialists at BAE Systems and Symantec announced last week new evidence suggesting that the criminals behind the notorious 2014 attack on Sony Corp. are also responsible for recent cyber-attacks involving 104...more

Affair Website Ashley Madison Fined $8.75 Million Over Data Breach, Misrepresentations

Ballard Spahr LLP on 12/16/2016

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a multimillion dollar settlement with the owners and operators of AshleyMadison.com, a dating website for people interested in having discreet affairs, related to the...more

Ashley Madison Settles with FTC and State AGs for $1.6 Million

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 12/15/2016

We have previously reported on the Ashley Madison data breach and subsequent litigation. On December 14th, Ashley Madison announced that it has agreed to pay $1.6 million and implement additional security measures to settle...more

New FTC Data Breach Response Guidelines

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/2/2016

Cybersecurity should always be at the top of any retailer’s priority list—and even more so as the holiday shopping season gets underway. To that end, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly-released Data Breach Response...more

Disgruntled Former Tribune Company Employee Who Aided Hacking Convicted; Could Face Jail Time

King & Spalding on 10/22/2015

On October 7, 2015, former Tribune Company employee Matthew Keys was convicted of three felonies stemming in part from assistance he provided to the hacking collective Anonymous to alter content on the LA Times’ website. ...more

Government Websites With Cybersecurity Tips & Information

Snell & Wilmer on 9/8/2015

As part of the government’s recent clarion call to improve our individual and collective cybersecurity posture, several federal and state agencies have released a variety of guidelines, frameworks, best practices and tips. ...more

Legal Precedent May Come From Ashley Madison Breach

Bilzin Sumberg on 9/4/2015

The Ashley Madison saga has captured the attention of the public and legal profession like few prior data security breaches. The reasons are obvious: A website devoted to promoting infidelity is called out for “fraud, deceit,...more

Ashley Madison Fallout: Class Actions, Pentagon investigation and easily searchable data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/31/2015

We previously reported that hackers The Impact Team had posted legitimate detailed information about 36 million adultery website Ashley Madison users. In the wake of the shocking posting of the data last week, two class...more

Legal Insights on the Ashley Madison Hack: Part I

Bilzin Sumberg on 8/27/2015

Internet commenters and legal analysts alike are buzzing about the Ashley Madison hack. The website -- which billed itself as a networking site for anyone who wanted to discretely arrange an extramarital affair -- has already...more

Web.com Suffers Data Breach Affecting 93,000 Customers

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/25/2015

The list of companies hit by cyber-attacks continues to grow. This time, Florida-based web hosting company, Web.com, has announced that it suffered a data breach that may have compromised credit card information and other...more

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