No Password Required: Founder and Commissioner of the US Cyber Games, CEO of the Cyber Marketing Firm Katzcy, and Someone Who Values Perseverance Over Perfection
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Busted by the Feds: The Anatomy of a Federal Criminal Prosecution of a Drone Pilot
Drones and National Security: The Regulatory Landscape
[WEBINAR] Laying the Foundation for Maximizing Benefits Around Emerging Technologies
What’s Next?: Drones and transforming policy at GE
K&L Gates Triage: Drones and Disruption in the Health Care Field
K&L Gates Triage: Using Drones in Medicine
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Welcome to our fourth issue of The Site Report for 2025! In this edition, we address the impact of tariffs, the AI revolution, the use of drones, an update on the universal reciprocity law, examining issues with office to...more
As drones become increasingly integrated into recreational and professional activities, their presence in U.S. airspace has grown exponentially. These unmanned aerial systems (UAS) bring unparalleled opportunities,...more
The Department of Commerce (Commerce) Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) has broad authority—born out of executive action during the first Trump administration—to identify and mitigate...more
CYBERSECURITY - Cyber-Attack Disrupts Public Services in Fremont County, Colorado - Government offices and public services in Fremont County, Colorado, have been disrupted since August 17, 2022, due to a “cybersecurity...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA Warns “Every Organization” in U.S. to Assess + Respond to Cyber Risks - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued another warning to “every organization” in the...more
Mr. Dan Pearson of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (“ADEE”) undertook a presentation on May 15th as part of the Arkansas Environmental Federation Land & Sustainability Webinar Series addressing: Arkansas...more
CYBERSECURITY - U.S. Chamber of Commerce and FICO Release Security Guidelines on Telework During COVID-19 - It is no secret that companies are experiencing an increase in security incidents following the transition...more
This week, China-based DJI, the drone industry’s leading manufacturer of drones, issued a public statement regarding the recent reports released by cybersecurity researchers (neither Synacktiv nor GRIMM) about the security of...more
A new report published by Coveware concludes that companies hit with ransomware attacks spend an average of 16 days recovering from the attack. Think about being offline and unable to do business for 16 business days. It is...more
FBI Warns of Retaliatory Cyber-Attack from Iran - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a heightened likelihood of Iranian cyber-attacks following the escalation of tension between the U.S. and Iran. This...more
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
Cybercriminals have launched a new campaign that not only requires the victim to pay a ransom to have their data decrypted, but when the victim is directed to a PayPal account to pay the ransom and get the decryption key to...more
For data security buffs like me, the recent McAfee® Labs Threats Report, December 2018 is, or should be, a top pick on the list. Well, maybe not for the holiday reading list. We need to be careful not to bring up the results...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced last week that it has discovered unauthorized users have attempted to hack into its online trademark system to attempt to make unauthorized changes to active trademark...more
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
While inspecting a cracked window at San Francisco’s tilting Millennium Tower, a drone fell from the sky nearly missing pedestrians below....more
A new ransomware, dubbed “Ryuk,” has surfaced in the last few weeks and is said to be targeting large organizations in the United States. The attackers behind Ryuk have reportedly made more than $640,000 in just two weeks,...more
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Public Service Announcement on August 2, 2018, entitled “Cyber Actors Use Internet of Things Devices as Proxies for Anonymity and Pursuit of Malicious Cyber Activities,”...more
Drone use has grown rapidly in recent years, especially in the commercial sector, where the Federal Aviation Administration projects that the number of units in the commercial small drone fleet will exceed 420,000 units by...more
TCM Bank, a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard Inc., notified some 10,000 credit card applicants in the past week that their names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers were compromised between March 2017 and the...more
Just days after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about a malicious malware, a Trojan malware variant known as...more
CYBERSECURITY - Financial Conduct Authority Warns Banking Industry of ICOs and Cryptocurrency - Writing a “Dear CEO” letter to banking executives, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned executives on June 11,...more
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning t U.S. consumers that Russian hackers (dubbed Sofacy and a/k/a Fancy Brear and APT28, and believed to be backed by the Russian government) had compromised...more
CYBERSECURITY - South Carolina Enacts Insurance Data Security Act - South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act into law on May 3, 2018. The law, parts of which become...more
Drones are being used by nefarious actors to spy on networks, intercept data, disrupt communications and hack into servers more than ever. In fact, drones are becoming a more and more prevalent source for infiltrating...more