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The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more
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
On April 16, 2024, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a bipartisan hearing on the issue of cyberattacks involving healthcare providers. The Committee called as witnesses cybersecurity professionals and...more
Modern warfare is no longer restricted to physical battlefields and professional military. Countries like North Korea and Russia have few qualms about using cyberspace to reach well beyond their physical borders to target...more
At the recent In-House Counsel Seminar, three Ward and Smith attorneys presented a realistic role play response to an incidence of wire fraud, addressing red flags associated with fraudulent communications, corporate incident...more
Last October, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council proposed two new rules, one of which that will influence cyber incident response practices. The scope is limited as it only applies to federal government...more
Introduction: On February 12, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized a critical cybersecurity rule, Sec. 64.2011, mandating telecommunications carriers and TRS (Telecommunications Relay Services)...more
CYBERSECURITY- Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Thunderbird and Firefox - Mozilla recently released security updates to address known vulnerabilities in their Thunderbird and Firefox products. The Cybersecurity &...more
The FCC has significantly expanded telecommunications carriers’ data breach notification and reporting obligations. Telecommunications carriers, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and telecommunications...more
At the end of 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “the Commission”) adopted updates to its existing 16-year-old data breach notification rules (“prior rules”) designed to ensure that sensitive customer...more
As we enter the New Year, Wiley has looked back at the top cyber issues for 2023 and what they mean for 2024. Last year, we saw the rollout of the National Cybersecurity Strategy—which outlined a new era of cyber oversight—as...more
At its December meeting, the Federal Communications Commission approved a Report and Order modifying its data protection rules. The order expands the scope of protected data to include personally identifiable information....more
On December 12, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued guidelines for companies to follow in requesting that the Attorney General authorize delays of cyber incident disclosures required by the U.S. Securities and...more
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced Thursday that in furtherance of the work of the agency’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau signed Memoranda of Understanding (“MOU”)...more
Large companies holding sensitive data – including financial services, telecommunications, business process outsourcing, hospitality, and cryptocurrency firms – as well as their IT helpdesks, are increasingly being targeted...more
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, and MS-ISAC recently released an urgent Joint Advisory on the Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22515. According to the Alert, “this critical vulnerability...more
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical...more
Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more
The FBI and CISA issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware” on September 20, 2023. The Advisory outlines the indicators of compromise and observed tactics, techniques, and procedures of Snatch...more
CISA and FBI have issued a joint advisory on the MOVEit transfer vulnerability that should be on the radar of CISOs and IT professionals. The CLOP ransomware organization has been reportedly exploiting an SQL injection...more
Cybersecurity research agencies around the world are warning organizations using VMware ESXi servers to patch an almost two (2) year old vulnerability to prevent being compromised by threat actors in the "ESXiArgs" ransomware...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new statute that will significantly impact medical device cybersecurity regulation. Section 3305 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“Section 3305”) authorizes the...more
CYBERSECURITY FBI, CISA + MS-ISAC Warn of LockBit 3.0 Ransomware The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MSISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about...more
The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about indicators of compromise, and tactics, techniques, and...more
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the formation of a new program aimed at identifying and preventing ransomware attacks. The initiative is known as the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning...more