No Password Required: Chief Adversarial Officer at Secure Yeti, a DEF CON Groups Global Ambassador, and a World-Class Awkward Hugger
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: When Cyber Attacks Hit Home
Overview of Cybersecurity in Government Contracts
Cybersecurity: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
No Password Required: The Teenage CEO of Girls Who Hack and Secure Open Vote, Who Is as Comfortable Behind a Mic as She Is Behind a Keyboard.
No Password Required: The Sailing CTO of Sylint Group Who Routinely Defends Against Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
Webinar Recording - Crypto Breaches: Legal & Regulatory Update
No Password Required: A Cybersecurity Education Specialist, Whose Passions Include the Forest, DIY, and Deviled Eggs
Cyberside Chats: Everyone wants to be Batman. Hacking Back & Cybersecurity Law
Defense In-Depth: Cybersecurity For Energy
Greetings and Felicitations - Aly McDevitt on Ransomware Case Study, Part 2
Not If, but When: A Data Protection Roadmap for Legal Teams in a Post-Pandemic World
How to Protect your Organization From a Cybersecurity Attack
Phishing: Cybersecurity’s Biggest Threat
No Password Required: An Infowar Expert Paved the Path From Rock-And-Roll to Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Webinar Series: Password Protected: Essential Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Planning for Your Small Business
CF on Cyber: The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 2
CF on Cyber: The Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack - Part 1
Fighting Cyber Crime: The $1 Trillion Invisible Threat
Podcast: How Can Companies in the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries Strengthen Their Cybersecurity Posture? - Diagnosing Health Care
If you have a tendency to reuse the same password across multiple accounts, you could be leaving yourself (and your organization) exposed to risk. Credential stuffing, the stealthy technique fueling a recent explosion of...more
In honor of Data Privacy Week, each day this week Miller Nash is releasing one of our top five recommendations for where businesses should focus their privacy compliance efforts in 2024. If you need assistance reviewing your...more
Small businesses may be discouraged from investing in preventive cybersecurity measures due to the expense involved and the mistaken belief that only larger companies are the target of cybercrimes. But that is not the case....more
Cyberattacks are a growing threat, with children being among the most vulnerable of targets. The internet serves as a platform for criminals to access children under the guise of anonymity...more
The concept of “security by obscurity” is officially outdated. In recent years, cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, destructive, and indiscriminate. In today’s landscape, cyber threats can come from internal...more
On October 12, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James fined Zoetop Business Company, Ltd. (“Zoetop”), the owner of fast-fashion brands SHEIN and ROMWE, $1.9 million for mishandling a 2018 data breach and lying to the...more
CYBERSECURITY - Password Manager LastPass Admits to Hack - Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of...more
With the recent announcement by LastPass that it was hacked, and source code was compromised (LastPass is reporting that no passwords were compromised), I thought it timely to remind readers about the pros and cons of using a...more
Password manager LastPass, reportedly used by more than 33 million users, recently announced that it was hacked, and although it reports that no passwords of users were compromised in the incident, unfortunately, its source...more
In previous posts on the Porter Hedges Anti-Corruption & Compliance Blog, our team has discussed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) proposal to amend its rules and require disclosures related to...more
Dr. Melissa Dark is the Founder of DARK Enterprises, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and supporting cybersecurity education at the secondary level. Before that, Dr. Dark worked in graduate and college...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA/FBI Advisory Warns of Destructive Malware Used Against Ukraine - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint advisory this week alerting organizations of...more
Passwords are so difficult to remember. We all know we shouldn’t use the same or similar passwords across platforms. Stolen password credentials are dumped on the dark web and criminals use the stolen passwords to steal other...more
Credential stuffing has quickly become one of the top attack vectors online, according to the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James (OAG). On January 6, 2022, the OAG announced the result of a sweeping...more
Federal agencies are warning businesses and consumers of heightened ransomware risks. On November 1, 2021, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification, warning businesses that ransomware actors are using significant...more
In today’s digital age, employers store immense amounts of information, including confidential and proprietary information, on their on-premises systems, cloud-servers and other data storage solutions. With this collection of...more
CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more
When you are educating your employees about the importance of maintaining a complex password or passphrase, share this story to show why it is so important and to emphasize not to use same or similar passphrases across...more
CYBERSECURITY - FBI, CISA + NSA Issue Conti Ransomware Advisory - On September 22, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security...more
With almost daily news of top firms impacted by data breaches or ransomware attacks, there is no doubt that effective cybersecurity and data privacy are essential to any business. And small businesses are not immune....more
Credential stuffing is a growing cyberattack method in which cybercriminals use a set of thousands of compromised user credentials, stolen from one company, to attempt a breach into another company’s secured system. It is...more
It has been reported by Bloomberg Law that the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack was caused by a “single compromised password.” The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack had consumers hoarding gasoline and disrupted...more
On January 22, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported about yet another data dump by the hacker group Shiny Hunters, this time for a clothing retailer. Shiny Hunters is known for exfiltrating large databases of customer...more
From August 2015 to August 2017, a man named Rodney Phipps was sentenced to prison for making fake phone calls to emergency services—calls that would end up sending SWAT and police to strangers’ residences in practice known...more