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CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Peril:Chatty Cathy

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We are all increasingly familiar with, and probably increasingly frustrated by, the use of chatbots to attempt to solve some problem we are having with a company, often delivery of a purchased item. The “virtual agent” (not...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

DOJ Issues New Guidance for Charging CFAA Cases

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

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Bringing Your Business Online: Cyber Insurance

The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses online in order to survive. In many cases, businesses had no plans to be online. Others were forced to move online more quickly than planned. In order to assist these...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Rise Of Mobile Phishing Scams

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In the span of a few short months, the number of phishing attacks targeting smartphones as the entry point to enterprise networks has risen by more than a third. Indeed, one cybersecurity company found a 37% increase in...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: The Expensive New Threat

By now, you’ve heard a horror story or two about ransomware. The city of Baltimore’s tale stands out. After cyber-criminals attacked the city’s servers and applications, they demanded $76,000 to decrypt the affected files....more

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InfoTrax Systems Settles FTC Allegations It Failed to Safeguard Consumer Data

InfoTrax Systems, a Utah-based technology company, has agreed to implement a comprehensive data security program to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company failed to put in place reasonable security...more

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Privacy Perils: Black Friday Blues

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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

K2 Integrity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month may be over – but threats are year round

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month may have ended on October 31, but cyber criminals are active 365 days a year, and they’re online looking for vulnerabilities around the clock. Every day, we also spend time online: navigating the...more

Fisher Phillips

The Government Shutdown Leaves Vulnerability in Cyber Security

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While parts of the Government continue to be shut down over concerns about people crossing the border from Mexico into the United States, the cyber borders are at risk. Many government websites are not being monitored or...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Is Your Ecommerce Site Secure for the Holidays?

The holiday season is here again and it is a prime time for cybercriminals to target websites to steal sensitive data. On Cyber Monday alone, online transactions are set to exceed last year’s record of $6.59 billion. Manatt...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Cybersecurity Spans the Ages

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Thinking about cyber security education for young children, elderly parents and grandparents might not be necessarily be on the top of your priority list. But, it is important given the substantial increase in malware and...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

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Can You Survive Identity Theft?

Identity Theft in the Digital and Physical Worlds - Common sense is the best defense against identity theft – creating strong passwords for online accounts and monitoring personal credit reports and credit card statements...more

Snell & Wilmer

Has Your Computer Been Hijacked For Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining?

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Another day, and another form of hacking comes to light. On June 26, 2018, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), an agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, issued a security tip...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: For What It's Worth

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Depending on the calculation method, what you are may be worth as little as $5. Who you are, however, can be worth much more. Experian recently sent an email linking out to an interesting article on the amount your...more

McManis Faulkner

Boo! “Witch” one should you have, HTTP or HTTPS?

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With Halloween season here, it’s important to be aware of the spooks on the web. It is a scary online world, and now more than ever is the time to take measures to strengthen the security of your website....more

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Privacy Perils: Phishing in the Ocean of Apps

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News about phishing attacks implemented through email and websites is very common (see Déjà vu All Over Again; American Express – New Bait for an Old Phishing Lure; Beware of Text Scam, iPhone Users; Beware New Hacker Scheme...more

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FTC’s “Stick With Security” #5: Segment Your Network And Monitor Who’s Trying To Get In And Out

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On August 25, 2017, the FTC released its fifth “Stick with Security” principal, which focused on how companies can protect their virtual “entrances and exits” and make life harder for hackers. The FTC believes that the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Company Awarded Damages After Former Employee Hacks Its Systems And Hijacks Its Website

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A company can recover damages from its former employee in connection with his hacking into its payroll system to inflate his pay, accessing its proprietary files without authorization and hijacking its website, a federal...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

Ballard Spahr LLP

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

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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

Robins Kaplan LLP

New FTC Data Breach Response Guidelines

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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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Choose Your "Friends" Wisely - Thought Leadership - Bass Berry

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By press release on Monday, November 14, 2016, adult website operator Friend Finder Network, Inc. (FFN) confirmed it was addressing "a security incident involving certain customer usernames, passwords and email addresses."...more

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