No Password Required: SVP at SpyCloud Labs, Former Army Investigator, and Current Breakfast Champion
No Password Required Podcast: Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker and Advocate of Buc-ee’s, Mascots, and Buc-ee Mascots
No Password Required: Director and Cybersecurity Adviser at KPMG and Rain Culture Authority
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Two - Cybersecurity Insurance: The New Frontier of Risk Management
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability and Reduce the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response
Unlock Privacy ROI: Why Making Cross-Functional Allies is Key
No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
Monumental Win in Data Breach Class Action: A Case Study — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Cost of Noncompliance: More Than Just Fines
Will the U.S. Have a GDPR? With Rachael Ormiston of Osano
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 14: How Employers Can Navigate Cybersecurity Issues with Brandon Robinson, Maynard Nexsen Attorney
FBI Lockbit Takedown: What Does It Mean for Your Company?
Privacy Officer's Roadmap: Data Breach and Ransomware Defense – Speaking of Litigation Video Podcast
Decoding Cyber Threats: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in a Digital World — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Life With GDPR: Episode 104 – Solar Winds and Your Mother – Tell The Truth
No Password Required: American University’s Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and a Tracker of (Cyber) Unicorns
Snooping Sadia Talks to Former Official Gene Fishel — Unauthorized Access Podcast
Life With GDPR: Critical Perspectives on Big Law Firm Cybersecurity
Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more
Marriott has agreed to pay $52 million dollars and implement new consumer data protections to settle investigations by attorneys general from 49 states and the Federal Trade Commission, following data breaches that occurred...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed settlement order against GoDaddy alleging that it “has failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and monitor its website-hosting...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Illinois AG’s and FTC’s Settlement Takes a $25 Million...more
At a Glance - In this final edition for 2023, the number and breadth of data privacy and security enforcement actions demonstrate that state AGs are flexing their muscles and playing a significant regulatory role in this...more
On November 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an enforcement action against Global Tel*Link Corporation and two of its subsidiaries (collectively, “GTL”), which provide communications and payment services to...more
The Federal Trade Commission earlier this month undertook an enforcement action against online pharmacy and telehealth provider GoodRx, in the latest example of the agency seriously pursuing its role as the nation’s de facto...more
In the latest of a flurry of FTC actions, the agency recently announced that it had entered into a consent order with CafePress, an online customized merchandise platform, over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’...more
On February 4, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a customer’s proposed class action lawsuit against a Florida-based fast-food chain, PDQ, over a data breach. The three-judge panel rejected the argument that...more
It well known that there are, unfortunately, many data breaches that frequently put private citizens’ data privacy in jeopardy. States have passed a variety of statutes aimed at addressing this problem in an attempt to...more
In April 2019, with the introduction of House Bill 904, a bi-partisan effort was made to strengthen cyber security in North Carolina. H.B. 904 seeks to make North Carolina's Identity Theft Protection Act one of the strongest...more
James Grago has a nice business going. He runs a website called ClixSense.com that permits users to earn money by completing surveys and watching advertisements. Revenues grew from $6.7 million in 2015 to $9.1 million in...more
We know we told you yesterday about the Equifax settlement and how you could make a claim in connection with the breach. Well, consumers whose personal information was compromised in Equifax’s massive 2017 data breach are in...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and 50 U.S. states and territories, have reached a global settlement agreement with Equifax Inc. (“Equifax”), according to which, Equifax agreed...more
On July 2, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with smart home products manufacturer, D-Link, regarding allegations that D-Link misrepresented the security of its wireless routers, modems, and...more
Pursuing negligence claims in the Eighth Circuit following a data breach just got harder. On May 31, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit again dismissed the data breach claims in In re SuperValu, Inc....more
Violations of privacy–already regulated by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (as well as provincial privacy regulators)–may also soon be regulated by Canada’s Competition Bureau. In a statement yesterday at the...more
Early last year, I posted about tougher, bi-partisan privacy and data security legislation in the works in North Carolina. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Senior Appropriations Chair, teamed-up with North...more
On April 16, 2019, Representatives Saine, Jones and Reives introduced House Bill 904, the long anticipated amendments to the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-61 et seq.. We first wrote about...more
On January 17, 2019, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) and Representative Jason Saine (R) held a press conference announcing plans to introduce legislation that would strengthen North Carolina’s Identity Theft...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on June 6 issued its long-awaited decision in LabMD v. Federal Trade Commission, vacating a Federal Trade Commission cease and desist order directing LabMD to overhaul its...more
Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more
Much has been written on the growing risks of data breaches and other cyberattacks, especially after the massive security breach at Equifax in September 2017. Recent cases holding franchisors liable for franchisees’ data...more
Takeaways - Companies that suffer cyberattacks can expect not sympathy but scrutiny from legal authorities. - D&O insurance can cover not only litigation but also investigation costs. - Strategic negotiation of...more
Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he has directed the Department of Financial Services (DFS) to issue a new regulation requiring “credit reporting agencies to register with” the DFS, as well as...more