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Witness Tampering In The Age Of Social Media

Witness tampering has been central to several significant political and legal scandals throughout US history. Defined as the act of attempting to improperly influence, intimidate, or impede a witness’s testimony or...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Cybersecurity Preparedness and the Growing Importance of Operational Resiliency

Creation of a new rapid response team signals regulators may turn today’s cyber examination priorities into tomorrow’s enforcement priorities. The Securities and Exchange Commission, New York State Department of Financial...more

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Bombay Hair tools, Daniel Wellington watches, FabFitFun boxes, HelloFresh meal kits, SugarBearHair vitamins, and more. Spend any time on Instagram and chances are you will encounter influencers promoting these products,...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The FBI and OCC have each launched inquiries into pricing practices within American Express’s forex unit with an aim to determine “whether the foreign-exchange international payments department misrepresented pricing to...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

The FBI Dips into Twitter’s Data Stream

Following up on our earlier post regarding the Era of Hashtag Surveillance, the FBI has published documents indicating that it intends to enter into a deal with a Twitter data miner, appropriately named Dataminr (and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI’s cyber most wanted: Spotlight on Firas Dardar and Ahmed Agha

New additions to the FBI’s Cyber’s Most Wanted List show “the line between ordinary criminal hackers and potential national security threats is increasingly blurry,” according to Assistant Attorney General for National...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Cyber prosecutions update

The feds have been busy on the cyber prosecutions front. First, on March 18, 2016, the FBI announced that a multi-agency collaborative effort blew up an identity theft ring whose leader was an inmate in a Georgia prison. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hacker has possession of 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employee information through social engineering and threatens to...

Boasting on a Twitter account, a hacker has claimed that he accessed over 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees’ demographic information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and titles....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CIA Director’s email account hacked

An anonymous hacker has contacted the New York Post to explain how he was able to hack into the CIA Director’s AOL email account. According to several reports, a high school student and his two friends implemented social...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Stop Insider Tweeting! -- Feds eye social media for securities shenanigans

As financial institutions and investors turn to social media to instantly share snippets of news and potential clues about market trends, the FBI and SEC are monitoring such postings for evidence of insider trading and...more

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