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Baker Botts L.L.P.

'Ransom Cartel' Leader Indicted: A Reminder of Cybercrime’s Growing Reach

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The recent indictment of Maksim Silnikau, a Belarusian and Ukrainian national, is a clear reminder that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and bold....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2022

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA/FBI Advisory Warns of Destructive Malware Used Against Ukraine - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory this week alerting organizations of...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - Tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a heightened risk of Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks on U.S. interests, including health care organizations,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #315 – Redline Malware Used to Steal Saved Credentials

Passwords are so difficult to remember. We all know we shouldn’t use the same or similar passwords across platforms. Stolen password credentials are dumped on the dark web and criminals use the stolen passwords to steal other...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Guide to Practical, Regulatory, and Reputational Risk Management

Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations - Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Healthcare Systems Remain an Attractive Target for Ransomware Attacks

Users of Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, recently lost access to electronic medical records when UHS suffered a ransomware attack and took its systems offline to...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2020 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - U.S. Organizations Doing Business in China Warned of Malware in Tax Software - The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Alert l March 2020 #2

Beazley Cites Ransomware as the Top Threat for Cyber-Attacks in 2020 - Insurance provider Beazley has issued a report (free registration required) detailing the landscape of cyber-attacks over the past year. The report...more

McAfee & Taft

COVID-19 Impacts: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity

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COVID-19 is increasingly being used in a variety of malicious email phishing spams and attacks in countries such as the United States, Japan, Russia and China. These updates purport to be from official government agencies and...more

Fisher Phillips

The Cybersecurity Threat of COVID-19

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As people across the world react to the rapid spread of COVID-19, a new threat is emerging; individuals and employers face a risk from hackers trying to take advantage of the demand for information. Hackers have begun using...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber Criminals Using Coronavirus Concern to Assist with Intrusions

Concern over the spreading coronavirus from China is legitimate and real. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, and the United States and other countries are limiting...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HIPAA Breach Results in a $4,500,000 Class Action Settlement

Community Health System, one of the largest health systems in the United States, has agreed to pay $4,500,000 to settle claims made against it arising from a 2014 data breach. The data breach, believed to be caused by malware...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Payment Card Data is Not Trade Secret Information under the DTSA

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In a recent case involving hackers that stole "payment card data" from Chipotle, Judge William J. Martinez in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado found on an issue of first impression that payment...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #3

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Schneider Electric recently issued a consumer warning that it mistakenly shipped to its customers USB drives that were infected with malware. Schneider Electric stated in its alert that “Schneider Electric has determined that...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #143 - North Korea/U.S. Summit Gift Bags Remind us of Dangers of USB Devices

The Singapore summit was the focus of news stories this week. The media descended on Singapore to capture all of the news. When journalists started posting pictures of the contents of the gift bags that they were given at the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Cybersecurity Best Practices

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When you bring to mind someone “hacking” a computer one of the images that likely comes up is a screen of complex code designed to crack through your security technology. Whereas there is a technological element to every...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Home Depot Settles Data Breach Suit for $25M

As a result of a $25 million settlement reached with the remaining banks and credit unions, the litigation against Home Depot stemming from its 2014 data breach will finally end....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Online Contacts and Eyewear Retailer Pays $100,000 Penalty to New York AG for Security Failures

Online retailer Provision Supply LLC (Provision Supply) (operator of EZContactsUSA.com which sells contacts and eye glasses) settled with the New York attorney general last week for its failure to notify its web customers of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Nearly 50 Million Records Breached in California Since 2012

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Earlier this month, the California Attorney General’s Office released the 2016 Data Breach Report covering years 2012 through 2015 for the State of California (the “AG’s Report”). The AG’s Report reveals that 557 data...more

BakerHostetler

Colleges and Universities Are Prime Cyberattack Targets: What’s Behind the Threat?

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When it comes to cyberattack targets, many think of retailers and associated credit card transactions or customer information, or perhaps healthcare providers with their ever-increasing storage and transmission of electronic...more

Perkins Coie

Could a Vendor’s Lax Info Security Ruin Your Holiday Sales? Seven Preventative Steps for Retailers

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Many of the largest retailer data security breaches have been caused or enabled by the acts or omissions of retailers’ vendors, such as the widely publicized incident at Target Corporation. Several such breaches occurred...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Trump Hotel Collection Confirms Year-Long Data Breach

Trump Hotel Collection, the high-end hotel chain owned by the billionaire Republican presidential hopeful and real estate developer Donald Trump, has confirmed a data security breach involving malware that the company says...more

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