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K&L Gates Triage: Emergency Preparedness and Response in Long Term Care
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Join Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, and Directors of IT from across Canada and dive into the latest technological trends, tools and opportunities for law enforcement at Canadian Institute's 3rd Annual Police Tech Conference & Expo....more
This regular alert covers key regulatory developments related to EU emergency responses, including in particular, to COVID-19, Russia’s war of aggression on against Ukraine, and cyber threats. ...more
Although executives of organizations report that ransomware is their number one security concern, and 87 percent of them expect an increase in cyber-attacks against their organizations over the next year, only one-third of...more
On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order which is aimed at improving the nation’s cybersecurity and protecting federal government networks. The Executive Order has been in the works for some time, but the...more
Disruptionware attacks have become increasingly more common over the last few months. Just last month, I wrote about a dangerous disruptionware attack against a Florida Water Treatment Center that could have been a mass...more
This post is a follow up from our recent discussion of the cyberattack that took the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline offline last week and the growing threat ransomware poses to our nation’s energy system. On May 10, 2021, a...more
It was not a matter of if, but when. On Friday, Colonial Pipeline Company, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, closed its entire 5,500-mile pipeline system that carries liquid fuels, including gasoline, from the Gulf Coast of...more
Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden appointed Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel is expected to pursue the...more
We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more
Effective measures to combat data risks resulting from COVID-19 include processing personal data, but companies must balance privacy rights and employee health. German data protection authorities have published initial...more
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, it is anticipated that a large portion of the workforce will be asked to work from home for their own protection and for the protection of others. Working from home...more
As employers respond to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, many are implementing work-from-home policies and establishing situational teleworking opportunities for their employees. While remote-work technology can...more
Organizations across the United States are preparing to respond to increasingly dire warnings from public health authorities and the need to take action to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and the disease it causes,...more
The FFIEC recently issued updated guidance on actions that banks should take to minimize the potential adverse effects of a pandemic. The Interagency Statement on Pandemic Planning (“Interagency Statement”) released on March...more
Another city—Durham, North Carolina—has become the victim of a ransomware attack stemming from a Russian hacker group following a successful phishing scheme....more
I was admittedly bummed when I received the email from IAPP cancelling the global summit this year, which was scheduled for next month. Bummed, but not so surprised, as every day the coronavirus is wreaking havoc and causing...more
A cyberattack on a single gas compression facility resulted in the shutdown of a natural gas pipeline for two days, according to a recent alert from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...more
Natural Gas Compressor Facility Shut Down After Ransomware Attack - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that a ransomware attack shut down a natural gas compressor facility for two days. While in...more
Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more
On October 1, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its “Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook” to address continued threats to medical devices that could affect...more
Not to be super scary, but the reality is that we live in a scary cyber world. A new report published by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance outlines the findings of a cyber exercise based on a hypothetical...more
We have previously reported on the ongoing cybersecurity issues with St. Jude defibrillators [view related posts here, here, and here]. On June 29, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the required firmware...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
AICPA Survey Shows U.S. Adults Worried About Identity Theft and Financial Fraud and Concerned Businesses Can’t Protect Their Data - A new Harris Poll for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which called 1,006 U.S....more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), one of the watchdogs of the financial services industry, has announced through Acting Director Mick Mulvaney that it will no longer collect personal information of consumers...more